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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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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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Human Trafficking and the UK Modern Slavery Bill
Social Inclusion, 2015 This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it.
Gary Craig
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The UK’s Modern Slavery Legislation: An Early Assessment of Progress
Social Inclusion, 2017 In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK.
Gary Craig
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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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British Journal of Psychiatry, 2003 Raj Persaud ( [2003][1]) begins his review of Thomas Szasz’s book Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry by asserting that something false is true: ‘Thomas Szasz became famous for being at the vanguard of the anti-psychiatry movement’.
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Caste Slavery and Atlantic Slavery
, 2021 The article states that caste and race have a long history of interrelationships and their integral parts of discrimination, oppression and slavery.
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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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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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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Flexible surgical robots are advancing minimally invasive interventions for cardiovascular diseases and cancer by enabling precise navigation through complex, submillimeter anatomical pathways. This review highlights recent innovations in actuation, bio‐integrated sensing, AI‐assisted control, and friction‐reduction technologies, discusses current ...
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