This extraordinary book details the lives of the many thousands of undocumented Chinese workers in the UK and the misery they almost universally suffer. This is shocking because, with the exception of well-known disasters such as the workers trapped and killed in a refrigerated lorry crossing the Channel and the dozens killed when the tide came in at Morecambe Bay cut off and drowned the cockle-pickers, one likes to think that one’s home country is full of compassionate people or, more importantly, that there are proper systems and regulations in place that can ensure that people are treated decently.
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