As everyone knows, part-time work is not confined to mums of young children who work to pick up pin money—that is an old concept.
It is not my case to defend the farmyard flocks of hens, which, by tradition, have provided farm housewives with pin money.
They should understand the worry that it is a matter not merely of pin money but of livelihoods.
What about family members like wives or children helping out in the family business for nothing or pocket money or pin money?
Some people have an image of home workers as a few women working for pin money.
There are elderly women in their seventies working for pin money—no doubt because for some reason or other they have not got pensions.
In my part of the country, egg production has been the pin money for the farmer's wife.
When employment protection legislation was introduced, it could have been argued that in many instances part-time workers were in employment for pin money.
