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Exploitation of Labor or Exploitation of Commodities?

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2023
Attempts to use commodities to construct theories of value and use such value theory to claim that, in capitalism, commodities can be exploited, just like labor is, rest on two conceptual flaws: (a) failure to distinguish between labor and labor power and (b) failure to distinguish labor power and other commodities.
Deepankar Basu
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Labor-Brokerage Coyotaje: Smuggling and Trafficking for Labor Exploitation and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Societies
Mainstream migration theory has often explained irregular immigration as an autonomous process driven primarily by individuals, families, or communities. However, the recruitment of undocumented labor by U.S.
Karla-Lorena Andrade-Rubio, José Moral-de-la-Rubia, Simón-Pedro Izcara-Palacios   +2 more
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Child Labor in the State of Amazonas: Invisibility of the Notification System

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2022
Objective: To describe the characteristics of reported cases of child labor in general and to compare official reported child labor data with data on sexual exploitation and occupational accidents involving children and adolescents between 2017 and 2021.
Nathália França de Oliveira, Emerson Victor Hugo Costa de Sá, Tommaso Lombardi, Regiane da Silva Rabelo   +3 more
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Evaluation of a tabletop UV-LED device for disinfection of smart devices and tools

SN Applied Sciences, 2023
Smart devices and tools, which are transferred into clean rooms, have a risk of surface contamination. Chemical disinfection can harm such devices and the process is prone to error due to the manual procedure.
Thomas Westerhoff, Thorsten Mally, Anastasija Schlicht, Martin Muellner, Hartmut F. Zimmermann   +4 more
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Victims of human trafficking and exploitation in the healthcare system: a retrospective study using a large multi-state dataset and ICD-10 codes

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Trafficking and exploitation for sex or labor affects millions of persons worldwide. To improve healthcare for these patients, in late 2018 new ICD-10 medical diagnosis codes were implemented in the US. These 13 codes include diagnosis of adult and child
Alexander Gutfraind, Alexander Gutfraind, Alexander Gutfraind, Kezban Yagci Sokat, Guido Muscioni, Sami Alahmadi, Jonathan Hudlow, Ronald Hershow, Beau Norgeot   +8 more
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Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a conceptual model

Global Health Action, 2022
Background Modern slavery is a complex global health problem that includes forced labor exploitation. An ecological systems perspective is needed to understand how contextual upstream and midstream factors contribute to labor exploitation, and how ...
Tessa Washburn, Marissa L. Diener, David S. Curtis, Cheryl A. Wright   +3 more
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The Michigan Farmworker Project: Development and Implementation of a Collaborative Community-Based Research Project Assessing Precarious Employment and Labor Exploitation

Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 2022
Farmworkers are among the most underserved and marginalized populations of workers despite their essential role in the U.S. food supply chain. The Michigan Farmworker Project (MFP) evolved as a collaborative, community-based participatory project among ...
Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, Diana Marin, Kara Moberg, Alexis J. Handal   +3 more
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A Framework to Develop Interventions to Address Labor Exploitation and Trafficking: Integration of Behavioral and Decision Science within a Case Study of Day Laborers

Societies, 2023
This paper describes a process that integrates behavioral and decision science methods to design and evaluate interventions to disrupt illicit behaviors.
Matt Kammer-Kerwick, Mayra Yundt-Pacheco, Nayan Vashisht, Kara Takasaki, Noel Busch-Armendariz   +4 more
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Russian Professor as a Laborer in the Era of Ratings, Digitalization and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Eastern European Journal of Transnational Relations, 2022
The traditional labor contract has actually ceased to be the principal legal document, regulating labor relations of Russian university teachers. The individual labor contract was reduced to the status of a mere ‘rudimentary’ annex to the so-called ...
Sergey Korolev
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Economía colaborativa, colonialidad de datos y mujeres racializadas

Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022
This article seeks to demonstrate the way in which he deployment of mediation technologies in the collaborative economy (apps) sustains and deepens the labor exploitation of racialized women.
Gabriela González Ortuño
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