Cleaning up the pineapple chain
The tropical fruit has long been associated with appalling labour practices and environmental damage linked to intensively farmed plantations. But a sustained international campaign is trying…
Revealed: suffering of Europe’s ‘tomato slaves’
Across Italy an invisible army of migrant workers harvests tomatoes destined for our dinner plates. Paid poverty wages and living in squalor, medical charities have described…
Migrant farmworkers ‘systematically damaged’ to produce food for others
Dora Clouttick caught up with Seth Holmes, author of the acclaimed Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies book which follows the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrant farmworkers…
What links your Chinese takeaway and the sex trade?
The answer: migrant labour, as the investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai found out whilst working undercover to research her new book, Invisible, and documentary, Sex My British…
Restaurant workers: the forgotten victims of exploitation
Next time you visit your favourite restaurant, or sit down to enjoy a take away, spare a thought for those toiling in the kitchens. Particularly if…
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