The Real Dubai

Great and disturbing article at The Guardian, talking about ridiculously low labour standards that are helping to build the ridiculous (and impressive) sky-scrapers in Dubai. From the article:

“All of these men are part of a huge scam that is helping the construction boom in the Gulf. Like hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, they each paid more than £1,000 to employment agents in India and Pakistan. They were promised double the wages they are actually getting, plus plane tickets to visit their families once a year, but none of the men in the room had actually read their contract. Only two of them knew how to read.”

‘We need slaves to build monuments’ – The Guardian