Contemporary forms of slavery

Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm

“…Second, LMIs are used within a national labour market in order to allow core companies to distance themselves from the 'dirty work'. Sharma (2006) cites the example of the indigenous Quechua people in Bolivia to illustrate this process. In the Bolivian sugar cane industry the main companies employ sub-contractors in order to achieve a particular output every fortnight.…”

Imperialism and the Dilemma of Slavery in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf, 1873–1939

“…As free divers were constantly indebted to their captains or pearl merchants, the process could often take several months to complete. 33 Another element of British action against the slave trade was its legal effort to expand the ability to search foreign vessels at sea. As mentioned previously, the administration was increasingly aware of the extensive use of the French flag to protect the slave traders from search by British cruisers.…”

“…Left to themselves, the administration would likely have continued their existing policy of largely ignoring slavery, but new circumstances required a shift in policy. 59 The first factor came in the form of the collapse of pearl prices in the wake of the introduction of Japanese cultured pearls and spread of the global depression of 1929, and the second came in the form of pressure from the League of Nations beginning in 1932. The global market for pearls had begun to decline shortly after the First World War, largely as the result of the mass marketing of Kokichi Mikimoto's cultured pearls in Europe and the United States.…”

“…The dilemma of slavery, which pitted the objectives of liberal politics against liberal economics for more than half a century, would wait until after the Second World War for resolution. 66…”

Human Trafficking and Slavery: Current Anti-Trafficking Efforts in Japan

“…For example, Anti-Slavery International, a long-established organization that has tackled the slavery issue since its foundation in 1839 (as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society), has published several reports on modern-day slavery in countries including Brazil, Nepal, and the United Kingdom, as Miers reviewed in her article titled "Contemporary Forms of Slavery" [13]. In addition, Asia Watch and the Women's Rights Project, a division of Human Rights Watch, which was founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, published "A Modern Form of Slavery," a report on trafficking of Burmese women and girls into brothels in Thailand in 1993 [14].…”