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The Audio Long Read

From the archive: Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: How the Italian mafia makes millions by exploiting migrants. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.4

Would a wealth tax on the super rich solve all our problems?

0:11.7

All I would say is Jeff Bezos does not live in Bansley.

0:14.7

And what are the practical solutions for young people to get on the housing ladder?

0:18.7

I'm waiting for my dad to sell his house.

0:20.7

Gotta get a hold of that deposit money.

0:22.7

What did taxation look like in the past?

0:25.2

Hair power and servants and horses and a whole great and just specific tax.

0:30.3

Join me, Moobin Hack, as I find out why our society works the way it does.

0:35.2

And how we can make it fairer on the financial fairness podcast.

0:43.6

The Guardian Archive Long Read.

0:54.4

Hello, my name is Io Awo Kueh.

0:57.4

I'm a freelance journalist.

0:59.8

And the name of my article is,

1:01.9

Are Your Tintomatoes Picked by Slave Labour?

1:04.7

And it was published in the summer of 2019.

1:08.2

I was drawn to the story when I came across a scene and expose about how African migrants and Libya were exploited.

1:17.0

When they had essentially shown that migrants in Libya were being auctioned,

1:23.4

I was really interested in understanding how that worked,

1:28.0

looking at kind of supply chains and how migrants fit into that.

1:34.3

And then I started to think,

1:35.5

well, there are these really common trafficking routes from Libya to Europe

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