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The Constraints of Late Colonial Reform Policy: Forced Labour Scandals in the Portuguese Congo (Angola) and the Limits of Reform under Authoritarian Colonial Rule, 1955–61

Portuguese Studies, 2022
:The District of Congo in northern Angola was, due to the post-war coffee boom, one of the regions under Portuguese colonial rule where a stable labour force was most urgently needed.
A. Keese
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Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour

Economic Journal, 2021
Can divide-and-rule colonial policy be responsible for contemporary ethnic tension? This paper empirically investigates the role of a divisive and extractive colonial policy on Hutu–Tutsi discord in Rwanda and Burundi.
A. Blouin
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Anti-Forced Labour Update: Stronger Legislation with an Absence of Guidance

Global Trade and Customs Journal, 2021
Addressing forced labour concerns in 2021 – upcoming legislation and lack of concrete guidance leaves importers concerned when developing mitigation strategies.
Pierfilippo M. Natta
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Comparing pre‐war and forced Ukrainian migrants in Poland: Challenges for the labour market and prospects for integration

International migration (Geneva. Print), 2023
Before full‐scale war broke out in 2022, over 1 million Ukrainians resided legally in Poland. Within weeks of Russia's aggression, around 1.5 million new Ukrainian forced migrants had arrived, many of whom remain in Poland.
Sabina Kubiciel–Lodzińska, Kate Golebiowska, M. Pachocka, Anna Dąbrowska   +3 more
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Forced labour in the fashion industry: a hypothetical EU-driven reorganisation of textile value chains

Economic Systems Research
Given recent breakdowns in global value chains, like the COVID-19 crisis or the conflict in Ukraine, developed economies are trying to develop resilience to address future drawbacks.
Á. García-Alaminos, J. Zafrilla, F. Monsalve   +2 more
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Time to Get Serious about Combating Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Fisheries

The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 2020
The connection between forced labour and human trafficking and fisheries, particularly illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, is vile and highly profitable, and may be found in most parts of the world. A fishing vessel can be a place of abuse more
Vasco Becker-Weinberg
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Eradicating Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains

Global Trade and Customs Journal, 2020
Whilst globalization has taken command of supply chains worldwide, and human rights practices are being respected with stricter conviction, the burden to eradicate forced Labour and modern slavery from global supply chains has shifted from governments to
Donald C. Hok, Pierfilippo M. Natta, Olivia Acuff, George Zaharatos   +3 more
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The prohibition of forced labour and the right to freely chosen work:

Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States, 2020
Welfare-to-work programmes imply a legal duty to perform work, often accompanied by sanctions which can be questioned from the angle of human rights and the freedom of work.
E. Dermine, Anja Eleveld, J. Arts, T. Kampen   +3 more
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Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour

This report provides new estimates of the profits generated from forced labour and assesses how profits have changed since the last ILO estimates were published in 2014.

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Methodological Challenges in the Business of Forced Labour

Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy, 2019
Most forced labour takes place in business contexts, yet the business logics of exploitation are rarely explored empirically. This gap relates to the lack of researchers in the field with specific expertise in business and management, as well as the ...
A. Crane, G. LeBaron
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