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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShadows of slavery part three: labour exploitation in global agriculture
This third section of our collection Shadows of Slavery explores how social and economic relations bind people to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorking for former masters in Madagascar: a ‘win-win’ game for former slaves?
Workers and landowners in the Malagasy highlands see sharecropping as an arrangement where both benefit, but that...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe problem of “working for someone”: debt, dependence and labour exploitation in Chad
Precolonial elites used to enslave the farmers of rural Chad, now they hold them in debt bondage. How much has...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNavigating unsafe workplaces in Costa Rica’s banana industry
Deeply rooted gender and class hierarchies mean that gender-based violence does not end at home - women are also...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryContainment, resistance, flight: Migrant labour in the agro-industrial district of Foggia, Italy
A ‘special economic zone’ exists in southeastern Italy where the rules and standards of work do not apply.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryExtorted and exploited: Haitian labourers on Dominican sugar plantations
Haiti, a former sugar colony, was formed through the rebellion of slaves, yet now many Haitians find themselves...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAgricultural investments in Tanzania: economic opportunities or new forms of exploitation?
Many are celebrating the fact that Tanzania is welcoming private investors in the agricultural sector, but who is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStruggling on the wrong side of the chain: labour exploitation in global agriculture
This week’s special series discusses the working conditions, the dynamics of exploitation, and the degree of...