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Thinking Allowed

Gang labour in UK; Industrial ruination

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4973 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Industrial Ruination - the landscapes and legacies of post Industrial decline. Laurie Taylor talks to Alice Mah about her comparative study into urban dereliction in 3 contrasting contexts - Newcastle, Uk; Niagara Falls, Canada; and Ivanova, Russia. Also, the geographer, Kendra Strauss, discusses her research into the origins and rise of gang labour in the UK. She's joined by Ben Rogaly who has done extensive research into forced labour and exploitation in British horticulture.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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These days I find I can get a bit of ecological credit by insisting that not one of my

1:20.6

lunchtime sandwiches contains so much as a hint of tuna.

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that the species might be extinguished by crassly commercial fishing practices. It derives entirely from the time I once

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spent working for a company which canned three types of tuna. Although I was only

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a clerk there, once a week before the paperwork began I had to sit in a line with a group

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of fellow employees and sample consecutive lumps of tuners so as to determine which batches

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