I took on three of the jobs shunned by western workers. Our mini-series reveals the hidden lives of those with no choice
Saša Uhlová
Migration statistics don’t tell us much about the people who leave their own countries and loved ones to work in poorly paid and physically demanding jobs. A lot of the time, we don’t even see them – because they live somewhere out of sight in hostels and spend their days working.
I worked undercover alongside some of them for a number of months in 2022, to report on the shocking conditions facing EU citizens who work in the lowest-paid jobs in western Europe – often invisibly.
Five years earlier, in 2017, I had gone undercover in my own country, the Czech Republic, to experience work in some of the worst-paid sectors there. I did jobs in a hospital washroom, at a poultry plant, behind a cash register and at a waste-sorting facility. That project became a book and a film….
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After the truth-shower 