Well you have to account for the fact that definitions of slavery are quite variable - e.g. illegal immigrants who "technically" get paid wages but well below minimum wage and work hours well above legal maximums but who dare not complain because they will get reported.
Add to that the various forms of debt slavery in which, again, isolation is not required.
It might not be obvious, in either case, to a casual observer that they were looking at a slave as opposed to a perfectly legal low paid manual labourer.
I can certainly believe there are people in such situations in every city in the UK and a lot of towns, anywhere there might be a demand for casual manual labour, or seasonal demands for a large number of hands, and employers prepared not too look too closely at the "agencies" who supply the labour.
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Date: 2007-10-30 09:38 am (UTC)Add to that the various forms of debt slavery in which, again, isolation is not required.
It might not be obvious, in either case, to a casual observer that they were looking at a slave as opposed to a perfectly legal low paid manual labourer.
I can certainly believe there are people in such situations in every city in the UK and a lot of towns, anywhere there might be a demand for casual manual labour, or seasonal demands for a large number of hands, and employers prepared not too look too closely at the "agencies" who supply the labour.