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James Bloodworth (born 18 December 1982)[1][2] is an English journalist and writer. He studied politics at Nottingham Trent University[3] and completed a Masters in political journalism at City University in London, where he has lived since 2010.

A former member of the Trotskyist group Alliance for Workers' Liberty,[4][5] he edited the left-wing blog Left Foot Forward from 2013 until 2016. Bloodworth previously wrote a weekly column for the International Business Times[6] and wrote for The Spectator's Coffee House blog from 2013 to 2015.[7] His work has also appeared in The Guardian,[8] The Independent,[9] and The Wall Street Journal.[10] He writes regularly for the website UnHerd.[11]

Bloodworth is the author of The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Biteback Publishing) which was published in 2016.[12][13][14]

Bloodworth's Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain (Atlantic Books) was published in March 2018. To research the oppressive conditions faced by those working in low-paid and minimum-wage jobs, the author spent six months employed in such posts. This included periods working as a care worker in Blackpool,[15] an Uber driver and in the UK packaging warehouse of Amazon. According to one review the book has been praised "across the political spectrum".[16] In May 2019, Hired was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing.[17] Hired was also chosen by The Times as its current affairs book of the year 2018.[18]

In September 2018, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted out a video in which Bloodworth drew on his book to criticize Amazon, as part of Sanders' push to introduce a bill that would charge large companies such as Amazon for the federal welfare programs that subsidize their low-wage workers.[19]

He also wrote a piece for The Daily Beast in which he repeated the Fox News claim that Cuba sent troops to Syria to help prop up the Assad regime, a claim which was denied by both the Cuban government and White House Press Secretary Joshua Earnest.[20][21][22]

James Bloodworth described Roger Scruton's book Fools, Frauds and Firebrands as "an impressively lucid take down of some of the most fashionable left-wing thinkers of the past 50 years".[23]

References

  1. ^ @J_Bloodworth (18 December 2013). "I've been denounced by Ceasefire magazine on my birthday as a heinous enemy of the party and the revolution" (Tweet). Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "The normblog profile 407: James Bloodworth". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. ^ https://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2012/06/the-normblog-profile-407-james-bloodworth.html
  4. ^ "James Bloodworth: A left-wing case against Comrade Jeremy Corbyn". International Business Times UK. 4 August 2015.
  5. ^ "James Bloodworth is wrong about Jeremy Corbyn - Workers' Liberty". www.workersliberty.org.
  6. ^ "James Bloodworth". International Business Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Author: James Bloodworth | Coffee House". The Spectator. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  8. ^ "James Bloodworth". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  9. ^ "James Bloodworth". The Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  10. ^ Bloodworth, James (12 February 2015). "The Race for Britain's Youth Vote". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  11. ^ "James Bloodworth". UnHerd. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  12. ^ Wigmore, Tim (10 July 2016). "Does The Myth of Meritocracy show us how to alleviate inequality?". New Statesman. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  13. ^ Patrikarakos, David (14 July 2016). "The Myth of Meritocracy: 'Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs' by James Bloodworth". Prospect. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  14. ^ Burchill, Julie (11 June 2016). "Tony Blair is top rotter in James Bloodworth's The Myth of Meritocracy". The Spectator. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  15. ^ Bloodworth, James (20 February 2017). "All the horror stories I came across as a care worker were about employers | James Bloodworth". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  16. ^ Cohen, Nick (11 March 2018). "Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  17. ^ "the orwell prize 2019: longlists announced". the orwell foundation. 7 May 2019.
  18. ^ "books of the year 2018: current affairs and big ideas". 23 November 2018.
  19. ^ Burke, Michael (10 September 2018). "Bernie Sanders renews attacks on Amazon, shares video accusing company of 'Orwellian language'". The Hill.
  20. ^ Bloodworth, James (16 October 2015). "Cuba Is Intervening in Syria to Help Russia. It's Not the First Time Havana's Assisted Moscow". The Daily Beast.
  21. ^ "Stories on Cubans in Syria Lack One Thing: Evidence of Cubans in Syria". LobeLog. 22 October 2015.
  22. ^ Peppe, Matt (18 October 2015). "The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria". Information Clearing House.
  23. ^ Bloodworth, James (23 September 2017). "Here's what to read and watch if you want to understand the 'new left'". UnHerd.



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