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Article

23 Apr 2008

Author:
Hsiao-Hung Pai

Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour

…[T]here are hundreds of thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants in Britain…They’ve travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone. Hsiao-Hung Pai…went undercover to hear the stories of this hidden work force. She reveals a scary, shadowy world where human beings are exploited in ways unimaginable in our civilized twenty-first century. Chinese Whispers exposes the truth behind the lives of a hidden work force here in Britain