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I am not sure...
An unsteady income is unsuitable for many, it only works if you have a very low rent / no kids / or a high income partner who can do school runs.
The benefits system is also too inflexible to deal with short term jobs.
I've done all sorts of low wages temp jobs when I was 16-18 during school holidays...no use now, no contract, no security.
JWestland-
"The benefits system is also too inflexible to deal with short term jobs."
Valid point, but that's the challenge: to make it easier for the unemployed to take on such work and then sign back on once it's finished. I'm not advocating that people with families, mortgages, etc. are press-ganged into such jobs, but there is a transient domestic working force for whom such work is suited - students for instance.
The_Kindness_of_Trees
“No British person wants a seasonal job working in the fields. They want permanent jobs or jobs that are not quite as taxing physically."
It's details like this that suggest some sort of silver lining. If the picking of our own veg is beneath us then we deserve, as a nation, all we're going to get.