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Originally Posted by Carth
Pea pulling, spud picking, sprouts, strawberries, flowers etc etc . . .
Plenty of so called 'casual' work used to be done by students in need of a few bob . . and I bet a few of you can remember local women (and kids) being bused out to farms to do picking 
Time moves on though and students, women, and kids now have no time to spare during their daily time consuming mix of daytime TV, Facebook, online shopping etc etc
The really sad part about the story though, is that the idiot jumped into bed with the supermarkets and is probably now finding that it's a lumpy bed that squeaks and rattles loudly, costing more than it's worth 
edit: Of course, it didn't help when the Govt. and HMRC took away the fun of cash in hand payments too  |
If kids are told that if they don't work hard at school, they will end up doing menial work and therefore somehow a failure, you can't really blame them for not being overexcited at the prospect of doing said menial work. See also cooks, cleaners, waiting staff,
etc.
The only ways out of that vicious cycle is to either remove the stigma of doing said work, raise wages to make the work more attractive or the easy route used up until now which is immigrant labour