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Gig economy workers for Deliveroo and Uber Eats in the city are living in
appalling conditions, while putting in long hours, earning low pay and facing
mental health problems
Two lines of dirt-encrusted, ramshackle caravans stretch along both sides of a
road close to the motorway that winds its way into the heart of Bristol. Rats
dart between water-filled concrete sluices to rubbish-flecked mounds of
vegetation. Drug users stumble out of the nearby underpass while lorries thunder
overhead.
This is the grim encampment where about 30 Brazilian delivery riders working for
large companies such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats are forced to live to make ends
meet.
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