I suggest anyone considering signing up for the Ryanair program to read "Love on the dole" by Walter Greenwood, set in depression-era Britain, 1933.
"Harry Hardcastle, who starts out as a 16-year-old, employed – as the young Greenwood had been – in a Salford pawnshop. He longs to join the men at Marlowe's engineering plant, and makes it there, only to be faced with the iniquities of an absurdly exploitative apprenticeship system."
Damn good read with striking parallels to the modern low cost aviation industry.