Dubai Pictures

The workforce building Dubai’s “world of tomorrow” are called “guest workers” by the Dubai government, and are brought in from other countries to work for wages that do not cover the cost of basic necessities. In a loop reminiscent of American coal mining communities in the 1950s, workers must live in government-provided housing in order to work, but they still have to pay for it. The price for housing is higher than their paychecks, so they begin to build debt, with food, clothing and other essentials building the debt even higher. In work in Dubai, these people sign up for years of hard labor and going into debt keeps them there even longer.


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