Author : Willemina Kloosterboer
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Forced labor
ISBN :
Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher :
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780756745165
Forced labor is a serious & pervasive problem in the U.S. At any given time 10,000 or more people work as forced laborers in cities & towns across the country, & it is likely that the actual number is much higher, possibly tens of thousands. Because forced labor is hidden, inhumane, widespread, & criminal, sustained & coordinated efforts by U.S. law enforce., social service providers, & the general public are needed to expose & eradicate this illicit trade. This report documents the nature & scope of forced labor in the U.S. from Jan. 1998 to Dec. 2003. It is the first study to examine the numbers, demographic characteristics, & origins of victims & perpetrators of forced labor in the U.S. & the adequacy of the U.S. response to this growing problem. Illus.
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards
Publisher : National Academy Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"The book offers a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor compliance with core labor standards. It provides a roadmap to existing data sources, their relevance to defined labor standards, their utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance, and the cautions necessary to understand and use the information. It is resource for anyone working on international labor issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9221153606
This report is an account of contemporary forced labour to date. It provides the first global and regional estimates by an international organization of forced labour in the world today, including the number of people affected and how many of them are victims of trafficking, as well as of the profits made by the criminals exploiting trafficked workers.Based on these data, the report highlights the gravity of the problem of forced labour. From this data emerges three major categories of forced labour: forced labour imposed by the State for economic, political or other purposes, forced labour linked to poverty and discrimination and forced labour that arises from migration and trafficking of workers across the world, often associated with globalization.The report provides evidence that the abolition of forced labour represents a challenge for virtually every country in the world industrialized, transition and developing countries alike. It assesses experience at the national level in taking up this challenge, with particular emphasis on the importance of sound laws and policies and their rigorous enforcement, as well as effective prevention strategies. The report also reviews the actions against forced labour taken over the past four years by the ILO and its tripartite partners governments, employers and workers. It calls for a new global alliance to relegate forced labour to history.
Author : Patricía Trindade Maranhão Costa
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This book shows how Brazil is leading the way for the rest of Latin America in fighting forced labour.
Author : Leonie Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134988850
First published in 1988. Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages.
Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0195126718
Davis concentrates his attention on slavery in America.
Author : Hugh D Hindman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1557 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317453859
"The World of Child Labor" details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Child labor remains a problem of immense social and economic proportions throughout the developing world, and there is a global movement underway to do away with it. Volume editor Hugh D. Hindman has assembled an international team of leading child labor scholars, researchers, policy-makers, and activists to provide a comprehensive reference with over 220 essays. This volume first provides a current global snapshot with overview essays on the dimensions of the problem and those institutions and organizations combating child labor. Thereafter the organization of the work is regional, covering developed, developing, and less developed regions of the world.The reference goes around the globe to document the contemporary and historical state of child labor within each major region (Africa, Latin and South America, North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania) including country-level accounts for nearly half of the world's nations. Country-level essays for more developed nations include historical material in addition to current issues in child labor. All country-level essays address specific facets of child labor problems, such as industries and occupations in which children commonly work, the national child welfare policy, occupational safety regulations, educational system, and laws, and often highlight significant initiatives against child labor.Current statistical data accompany most country-level essays that include ratifications to UN and ILO conventions, the Human Development Index, human capital indicators, economic indicators, and national child labor surveys conducted by the Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor. "The World of Child Labor" is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive reference for high school, college, and professional researchers. Maps, photos, figures, tables, references, and index are included.
Author : Joel Quirk
Publisher : United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Child labor ; Comparative analysis ; Contemporary history ; Forced labor ; Government policy ; Human trafficking ; Liberation movements ; Modern history ; Prostitution ; Slavery.
Author : Amy Dru Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1998-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521635264
In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.
