Harry's Place » Dubai: A disadvantage of a living under a ...

Westerners were borrowing money from the banks to make these purchases and using their credit cards to spend money that was not theirs in the glistening shopping malls, bars and restaurants of Dubai. Live-in servants could be installed in these ... The construction was paid for with debt and the labour carried out by imported workers treated like virtual slaves who live in squalid labour camps, work in the searing heat and denied the right to a union or to strike. ...