WORKING CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND

"It’s difficult work. You have to keep up with machinery, although you’re just human, because there’s a certain target the factory wants to achieve and they don’t care if you’re tired, or if you’ve been working too much. They just want to achieve that target in production. You go home, you’re tired, there’s a lot of people in the house, you don’t have a lot of comfort. So you sleep, you get out of bed at 4 o’clock in the morning you go back to work

In return Alex was paid around £4.70 an hour, only just above the minimum wage, but that was before a host of deductions made by his agency. They sometimes left him with as little as £30 a week in his pocket. Deductions like the cost of transport to and from work, despite Alex says being told in Portugal this was already paid for. The agency also took £50 a week for accommodation, a small room which Alex had to share with two others. But when he found somewhere better to live, Alex says his agency refused to give him any more work". BBC