From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every
day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are
squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African children are
used for forced labour. Low wages are used to drive down prices from the
oil industry to airport services.
In this book, Toby Shelley shows that current unprecedented flows of
migrant workers are a direct result of economic liberalization. The
appalling conditions and legal abuses which confront these workers are
not a premodern aberration, but an integral part of the global economy.
Shelley argues that even governments, keen to protect big business, are
complicit in this exploitation; their 'law and order' approach on
immigration being part of this complicity.
Based on interviews and investigations with workers, unionists and
activists, Exploited is a powerful and shocking read.