(BUSINESS INSIDER) Shona Ghosh, April 18, 2018 — Working in an Amazon warehouse is like a prison, says an author who worked undercover at a fulfillment center and found that staff members were peeing in bottles because they didn’t have enough time to go to the toilet.

James Bloodworth investigated casual work and its effect on people’s lives for his book “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain.” To research how people cope, he took low-paying jobs at an Amazon warehouse, in social care, at a call center, at a building site, and as an Uber driver.

Bloodworth spent just under a month in 2016 working as a “picker” at an Amazon fulfillment center in Rugeley, in central England, which involved retrieving items that people had ordered for delivery.

Bloodworth said he was employed through Transline, an agency Amazon cut ties with last year after a 2015 investigation by The Guardian found it had sent about 1,500 people to work in poor conditions at the warehouse of Sports Direct, a major British retailer.

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