Author: Stanisław SwianiewiczPublisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Forced labor
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Forced Labour and Economic Development
Author: Stanisław SwianiewiczPublisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Forced labor
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Forced Labour and Economic Development
Author: S. SwianiewiczPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004236457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book shows that in Asia and Europe, 17th- early 20th century, the history of “free” labour is linked to that of coerced labour. Circulation of models, peoples, goods and institutions, and long-term growth contributed to increase coercion.
Forced labour and economic development
Author: S. SwianiewiczProfits and Poverty
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The publication by the ILO of new estimates on forced labour in 2012 created a sense of urgency for addressing implementation gaps relating to the ILO's Forced Labour Conventions, leading to the adoption of supplementary standards by the 103rd International Labour Conference in June 2014. The power of normative pressure against those who still use or condone the use of forced labour is essential, and national legislation needs to be strengthened to combat forced labour and penalties against those who profit from it need to be strictly enforced. However, a better understanding of the socio-economic root causes and a new assessment of the profits of forced labour are equally important to bringing about long-term change. This report highlights how forced labour - which in the private economy generates US$150 billion in illegal profits per year, about three times more than previously estimated - thrives in the incubator of poverty and vulnerability, low levels of education and literacy, migration and other factors. The evidence presented illustrates the need for stronger measures of prevention and protection, as well as for enhanced law enforcement, as the basic responses to forced labour. At the same time, the report offers new knowledge of the determinants of forced labour, including a range of figures that break down profits by area of forced labour and by region. This can help us develop policies and programmes not only to stop forced labour where it exists, but to prevent it before it occurs.
Monitoring International Labor Standards
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309091349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core international labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting all relevant information into one central database. At the request of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Research Council's Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was charged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing the quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance, exploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making recommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. The result of the committee's work is in two partsâ€"this report and a database structure. Together, they offer a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor compliance with core labor standards. The report provides a comprehensive review of extant data sources, with emphasis on their relevance to defined labor standards, their utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance, and the cautions necessary to understand and use the quantitative information.
Social and Labour Aspects of Economic Development
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy
Author: Genevieve LeBaronPublisher: Proceedings of the British Aca
ISBN: 9780197266472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"By most accounts, forced labour, human trafficking, and modern slavery are thriving in the global economy. Recent media reports -- including the discovery of widespread trafficking in Thailand's shrimp industry, forced labour in global tea and cocoa supply chains, and the devastating deaths of workers constructing stadiums for Qatar's World Cup-- have brought once hidden exploitation into the mainstream spotlight. As public concern about forced labour has escalated, governments around the world have begun to enact legislation to combat it in global production. Yet, in spite of soaring media and policy attention, reliable research on the business of forced labour remains difficult to come by. Forced labour is notoriously challenging to investigate, given that it is illegal, and powerful corporations and governments are reluctant to grant academics access to their workers and supply chains. Given the risk associated with researching the business of forced labour, until very recently, few scholars even attempted to collect hard or systematic data. Instead, academics have often had little choice but to rely on poor quality second-hand data, frequently generated by activists and businesses with vested interests in portraying the problem in a certain light. As a result, the evidence base on contemporary forced labour is both dangerously thin and riddled with bias. Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy gathers an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to tackle this problem. It provides the first, comprehensive, scholarly account of forced labour's role in the contemporary global economy and reflections on the methodologies used to generate this research" -- Provided by publisher.
Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy
Author: Genevieve LeBaronPublisher:
ISBN: 9780191884214
Category : Forced labor
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
'Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy' gathers an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to tackle this problem. It provides a comprehensive scholarly account of forced labour's role in the contemporary global economy and reflections on the methodologies used to generate this research.
The Poverty of Slavery
Author: Robert E. WrightPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319489682
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much like pollution, drag down all members of society. Tracing the history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates how slaveholders burden communities and governments with the task of maintaining the system while preventing productive individuals from participating in the economy. Historians, economists, policymakers, and anti-slavery activists need no longer apologize for opposing the dubious benefits of unfree labor. Wright provides a valuable resource for exposing the hidden price tag of slaving to help them pitch antislavery policies as matters of both human rights and economic well-being.