Rodney Sharpe delivered daily and Sunday papers on a 21-mile round in Maidenhead for Midcounties Co-op for over two decades.

"As I discovered while working for Uber, life behind the wheel can become a blur of endless traffic, enduring fatigue and relationships strained by absence."

"I was a picker, taking items from the shelves in the warehouse. Our speed was timed, and if you were slow you got a strike."

"At 16, I was finishing school in Poland and was in a new relationship with a guy who was a couple of years older than me."

"I never thought that this would be a label that ever applied to me – a modern day slave."

In his home town of in the Czech Republic, Jan struck up a relationship with a girl. Unknown to him, the girl was a family member of a trafficking ring in Plymouth.

"I’m 24 years old and from Romania. My mother left when I was a child and my father was an alcoholic and couldn’t get any work."

"In Barbados I had a good income. One day I lost my job. It knocked me flat."

"Life in the Ukraine was hard. I could not earn enough to cover even basic things like food and rent. There was never enough work."