Since he emerged from the back of a lorry after crossing from Calais seven years ago, his experience has been one of exploitation and misery.
It has been obvious for at least 30 years that the sites of misery and exploitation, triumphantly erased in slum and industrial clearance programmes here, were only being erected elsewhere, and summoning into their service innocent young countrywomen, yesterday's dispossessed peasantry, surplus populations, just as occurred here in the late 18th and early 19th century.
While there are near-universal reports of misery and exploitation, quitting is the only remedy anyone can seem to come up with.
If this expansion benefited the state and a small and already wealthy part of the Russian nobility, it increased the misery and exploitation of the Ukrainian and Russian peasantries.
All of that would be fine -- Brody's charisma manages to blunt some of the dialogue's preachiness -- except most of Detachment's 98-minute running time is eaten by a miscellany of misery that ventures freely into exploitation.
Now routinely saluted as the first history of black American folklore by a black author, "Mules and Men" was faulted by black critics of its own time for its adamant exclusion of certain elements of the Southern Negro experience: exploitation, terror, misery, and bitterness.
Three of his early works deal with the cacao plantations, emphasizing the exploitation and the misery of the migrant blacks, mulattoes, and poor whites who harvest the crop and generally expressing communist solutions to social problems.
But Steve Murphy, general secretary of the building workers union Ucatt, said: "This commitment demonstrates that Labour is serious about ending the misery caused by the exploitation of migrant workers and rightly targets the employers who profit through the mistreatment of workers".
Anecdotes of misery abound.
