The Absence of Decent Work: The Continued Development of Forced and Unfree Labour in India [PDF]
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has developed a concept of decent work and set this as a standard in 1999. However, in many places in the world people labour under conditions that are far from ‘decent’.
Jamie Morgan, Wendy Olsen
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The Global Politics of Forced Labour [PDF]
This article examines the politics of governing forced labour. It develops and applies an approach drawing on Marx’s conception of the historical formation of ‘free’ labour in the process of ‘primitive accumulation’ and Gramsci’s conception of the ...
Nick Bernards
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Asylum, Immigration Restrictions and Exploitation: Hyper-precarity as a lens for understanding and tackling forced labour [PDF]
The topic of forced labour is receiving a growing amount of political and policy attention across the globe. This paper makes two clear contributions to emerging debates.
Hannah Lewis, Louise Waite
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What is the prevalence of and associations with forced labour experiences among male migrants from Dolakha, Nepal? Findings from a cross-sectional study of returnee migrants. [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Growing numbers of people are migrating outside their country for work, and many experience precarious conditions, which have been linked to poor physical and mental health. While international dialogue on human trafficking, forced labour and
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A Critical Review of Child Labour in Nigeria and The Case for Child Entrepreneurship [PDF]
Nigeria and the world over condemn forced or exploitative labour of a child, for the obvious reason of the adverse physical, psychological, mental and emotional effect of it on children.
Mike Akpa AjaNwachuku
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Debate: Forced Labour, Slavery and Human Trafficking: When do definitions matter?
We can spend a lot of time debating the connections or essential differences between the concepts of trafficking, forced labour, slavery and modern slavery, or slavery-like practices.
Roger Plant
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Forced labour – well-hidden mechanisms of dependence and enslavement
Forced labour is a social phenomenon which is difficult to comprehend and accept due to its exceptional nature. The existing legal definition is not very helpful.
Lasocik Zbigniew
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The unspoken phenomenon: Forced labour in Hungary
According to official criminal statistics, a total of 36 registered forced labour crimes were committed in Hungary between 2013 and 2019. Forced labour (Section 193 of the Criminal Code) was a separate statutory element in Hungary between July 1, 2013 ...
Windt Szandra
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This article will examine the efficacy of current programme services for adolescent girls at risk of forced labour through an analysis of Walk Free’s Promising Practices Database.
Bryant Katharine, Joudo Bernadette
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Proletarianisation, Agency and Changing Rural Livelihoods: Forced Labour and Resistance in Colonial Mozambique [PDF]
In current analytical approaches to rural poverty in southern Africa, the concept of changing livelihoods stands in an inverse relation to the concept of proletarianisation. The more we see the term livelihoods, the less we see proletarianisation.
Bridget O’Laughlin
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