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14 specially recorded songs from 1989 inspired by the BBC TV series "Hard Cash". All the songs revolve around the exploitation of the worker or lack of work or how hard certain types of work can be and how difficult it can be to earn a crust. It features the cream of the British folk scene of the day - Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson, the Watersons, June Tabor, Ron Kavana and others with songs as relevant today as they were a decade ago.