Fast labour
By: Steve Waters
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Labor market; Drama; Corrupt practices; Foreign workers; Ukrainians; Illegal aliens
Description: In the Ukraine, Victor had a business, a family and a home, but things have changed and he's fled to the UK in search of a better life. Now he's doing everything from gutting fish to picking carrots. But he's a strong-minded man who is determined not to stay at the bottom of the economic food chain forever. He decides to build a business of his own with the aid of two fellow East Europeans and his Scottish mistress. By offering cheap labour to a big shot gang master, Victor builds up a highly successful empire. But this rapid expansion exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of his business - by lining his own pockets he is necessarily cheating those illegal migrants whom he employs.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2008.