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Growth in Baristas Drives Down Average Wages

Geoff Riley

5th September 2014

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The relentless rise of the high street barista economy is a factor causing a significant shift in the pattern of jobs in the British economy. Many higher paid jobs in manufacturing have been lost replaced by hundreds of thousands of relatively low paid work in the service sector. The Guardian reports here on a new survey from Incomes Data Services.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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