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Modern slave or illegal worker? The haze around modern slavery and its implications [PDF]
, 2017 The Modern Slavery Act 2015 has been far from a solution to the problem of worker exploitation. Candice Morgan explains how the Act is flawed in its application, and why much of the ineffectiveness comes down to how ‘modern slavery’ is being ...
Morgan, Candice
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Modern Slavery Disclosure in Indonesia Corporate Supply Chains
Jurnal Riset dan Aplikasi: Akuntansi dan Manajemen: Modern Slavery Disclosure in Indonesia Corporate Supply Chains. Purpose: This study examines how Indonesian companies disclose modern slavery risks under a voluntary reporting regime.
Padma Adriana Sari +4 more
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Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking: An Overlooked Issue [PDF]
, 2011 Slavery and human trafficking have become a widespread problem across the globe today. Practices including debt bondage, forced labor, sexual slavery, and more are occurring in every country, including here in the United States.
Kuhl, Michelle
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Community Banking and Microfinance in the Global South
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Microfinance is promoted for empowering women, financial inclusion and eradicating poverty. Started as non‐profit services in South Asia and South America, critics point out that microfinance has become a business. Simultaneously, age‐old traditional community banking has been flourishing today without necessarily reducing the demand for ...
Karoliina Kantola
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How Education and Digital Access Can Help Abolish Modern Slavery in Mauritania
, 2023 Cyrus Commissariat +6 more
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Unbound: Breaking the Bonds of Modern Day Slavery [PDF]
, 2019 Undergraduate Graphic ...
Calleja, Stephanie
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The aftershocks: migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation in post-earthquake Nepal [PDF]
, 2015 Laura McManus is an ethical supply chain consultant specializing in modern slavery in Nepal. She is currently completing research for a joint project with photographer Monica Jane Frisell that examines the lives of Nepali domestic workers.
McCormack, Sam, McManus, Laura
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CONCERT: A Modular Reconfigurable Robot for Construction
Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents CONCERT, a fully reconfigurable modular collaborative robot (cobot) for multiple on‐site operations in a construction site. CONCERT has been designed to support human activities in construction sites by leveraging two main characteristics: high‐power density motors and modularity. In this way, the robot is able to perform a
Luca Rossini +18 more
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"Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate": Caribbean slavery, constructivism, and hermeneutic tensions [PDF]
, 2014 This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in International Theory. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Shilliam, Robbie.
Shilliam, R
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