United Arab Emirates Travel Guide : UAE Photos : Foreign Labor Photo

But the biggest consumer of foreign labor is without doubt
the building trade.

In Dubai, wherever we look, we can see dozens of cranes at the horizon and thousands of workmen who go day and night to the building sites.

The working conditions of all these immigrant workers would make any European trade unionist hopping mad: 6 working days per week, 8 to 12 hours per day, working day and night, practically no vacation, etc...