The tomato pickers in Italy are referred to as "slaves of modern times."
Endless hours of hard work, and largely tolerated by the authorities for economic reasons, which is paid only 15-20 euro per day and then come home in squalid makeshift camps without running water or electricity.
The Dr Alvise Benelli of Doctors Without Borders says: "They end up living in conditions that are often worse than those in which they lived at home."
(Silvia Aloisio for Independent.it)
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Endless hours of hard work, and largely tolerated by the authorities for economic reasons, which is paid only 15-20 euro per day and then come home in squalid makeshift camps without running water or electricity.
The Dr Alvise Benelli of Doctors Without Borders says: "They end up living in conditions that are often worse than those in which they lived at home."
(Silvia Aloisio for Independent.it)