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Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica, 2006 The author offers a history of slavery, particularly with reference to American history.
Doug Dowd
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Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery
Work, Employment and Society, 2020 While research has examined the plight of vulnerable workers, the role of consumers who drive demand for slave-based services and products has been largely neglected.
Michal J Carrington +2 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
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“Ho paura di essere consegnata in dono!” Aspetti della schiavitù femminile nell’antica Mesopotamia
Storia delle Donne, 2009 Freedom in Ancient Near East was a relative, not an absolute state, as the ambiguity of the term for “slave” in all the region’s languages illustrates.
Maria Vittoria Tonietti
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, 2020 Abolishing ‘modern slavery’ has now achieved international policy consensus. The most recent UK initiative – the 2015 Modern Slavery Act (MSA) – includes amongst other aspects tougher prison sentencing for perpetrators and the creation of an independent ...
Stuart Hodkinson +3 more
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.Pharmacogenomic research has historically focused on individuals of European ancestry, leading to the underrepresentation of genetic variants common in non‐European populations. This bias is exemplified by CYP3A5*6, a functionally consequential variant common in individuals of African ancestry (MAF: 11–19%) but virtually absent in Europeans (MAF: 0.15%)
Amar D. Levens +10 more
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart +3 more
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Géographies du travail esclave au Brésil
Cybergeo, 2011 The article examines slavery in the Brazilian countryside by mapping available data on releases of slave laborers and denunciations of slavery cases. It analyzes the distribution of the phenomenon in Brazil, identifies situations related to slavery, and ...
Hervé Théry +3 more
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, 2019 Empirical studies indicate that business compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act is disappointing, but they struggle to make sense of this phenomenon. This article offers a novel framework to understand how business organizations construct the meaning ...
David Monciardini +2 more
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Determinants of corporate compliance with modern slavery reporting
Supply Chain Management, 2019 PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the determinants of corporate compliance with the transparency in supply chains provision of the UK Modern Slavery Act.
A. Flynn
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