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Elements for the Agent-Based Modeling of Slavery Systems
Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2020 This paper introduces formal concepts for the agent-based modeling of slavery systems. The concepts of master-slave economic relationship, slavery-based economic system, slavery-supporting legal system, and slavery-based material agent society are ...
Antõnio C R Costa
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A Review of the Leading Information Technology Companies’ Modern Slavery Statements [PDF]
Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2023 Modern slavery is an insidious problem in many sectors of the global economy, and it poses a challenge for the information technology industry. However, the issue of modern slavery in the information technology industry has received little or no ...
Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort
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HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-StudienEste artículo examina la denominación de grandes grupos poblacionales en América, como los antiguos esclavos y sus descendientes. El grupo que hoy define el discurso sobre la esclavitud y sus consecuencias suele ser denominado “afros”.
Michael Zeuske
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2020 Locations where populations are most reliant on forests and their ecosystem services for subsistence and development are also areas where modern slavery persists.
Bethany Jackson +3 more
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, 2019 This chapter addresses the concept of slavery, exploring its character and significance as a dark page in history, but also as a specifically criminological and zemiological problem, in the context of international law and human rights. By tracing the ambiguities of slavery in international law and international development, the harms associated with ...
Boukli, Avi +2 more
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The Journal of Economic History, 2013 This article shows how asymmetric information shaped slavery by determining the likelihood of manumission. A theoretical model explains the need to offer positive incentives to slaves working in occupations characterized by a high degree of asymmetric information. As a result, masters freed (and, more generally, rewarded) slaves who performed well. The
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, 2018 This book asks what it means to describe someone as a slave and explores the political dimensions of that question. It argues against the search for a transhistorical and timeless definition of slavery, and offers a critical interrogation of the dominant liberal discourse on slavery from the Enlightenment to the present. It pays particular attention to
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The Sierra Club: Environmental Activism and US Empire, 1892–1900
USAbroadFormed in 1892, the Sierra Club (SC) is the oldest US environmental organization concerned with the environment within US borders and beyond. Yet, to date, the Club has not received much attention from historians.
Dean Clay
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Modern Slavery Policies in a Conceptual Perspective
International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences, 2018 Most of the people assume modern slavery end up in 19th century. However, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO), today 40 million people live as a slave. Moreover, modern slavery is the world’s fastest growing crime and has huge number,
Imran Sarihasan, Domicián Máté
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Slavery and the Revival of Anti-slavery Activism [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter sets out the volume’s critical approach to the dominant discourse on modern slavery and its impulse to question the assumptions and the politics behind that discourse. It explores the limits of the modern slavery rhetoric for understanding the complicated logics of agency, freedom and belonging, and of past, present and future, for those ...
Brace, Laura, O'Connell Davidson, Julia
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