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Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods.

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StatusEnded
Original NameBlood, Sweat and Luxuries
First Air DateApril 20, 2010
Last Air DateMay 18, 2010
Seasons1
Episodes5
Episode Runtime1h 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production Companies
NetworksBBC Three
S01E05

Technology

The volunteers leave Africa for the Philippines as they enter the final leg of their journey. Here, they discover the ultra-competitive world of electronics, where they join highly disciplined factory workers to assemble components. They are also given a taste of an alternative to industry life when they visit a city dump, which is both home and workplace to the people who rely on it for a living.

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