According to the TUC, one in 10 people in the UK are in jobs that are poorly paid, precarious and short, the "low pay, no pay" cycle.
This is not only desirable in itself, it will also reduce the power of officials to extort rents from Nigerian business.Given the government's precarious finances, paying public servants properly will not be easy.
"Too many [working people] have been driven from secure, full-time work," says the manifesto, "into precarious, badly paid jobs – many working on zero-hours contracts … Over five million people are in low-paid jobs, earning less than the living wage.
As women represent 59% of graduates, it is difficult to understand why the majority of new jobs for women are part-time, sometimes insecure and precarious, poorly paid and with few prospects of career progression.
Nor should it be a low status, low pay, precarious form of paid employment.
Low unemployment masks the fact that almost 7 million Germans are working part time, precarious jobs that pay as little as $540 per month.
And they have long faced the challenges associated with the gig economy: precarious employment, low pay and a lack of workplace protections.
Precarious work, low pay, poor working conditions and long hours - Britain has the least regulated labour market, even including the US - undermine productivity, reduce motivation and increase absenteeism.
In a year where women have been disproportionately hit by low pay, precarious employment and cuts to in work benefits the fight against the exploitation of working women has never been more urgent.
In most of these countries, job creation is anaemic, real wages are falling, and dual labour markets mean that formal-sector, unionised workers have good wages and benefits, while younger workers have precarious jobs that pay lower wages, provide no employment security, and offer low or no benefits.
