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Zwangsarbeit 506 Forced labour 433 Sklaverei 98 Welt 94 Slavery 93 World 93 forced labour 67 Deutschland 52 Geschichte 47 Colonialism 45 Kolonialismus 45 Theorie 44 Theory 44 Arbeitsbedingungen 43 Economic history 41 Wirtschaftsgeschichte 41 Working conditions 38 Arbeitsmarkt 37 Arbeitsmigranten 36 Labour market 36 Migrant workers 36 History 34 trabajo forzoso 34 travail forcé 34 India 33 Indien 31 Menschenhandel 31 Human trafficking 30 Labour standards 27 Sozialstandards 27 Deutschland (bis 1945) 26 Germany 26 Germany (until 1945) 26 Drittes Reich 25 Sowjetunion 24 Kriegswirtschaft 23 USA 23 USSR 23 Penal system 20 Strafvollzug 20
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Book / Working Paper 434 Article 126 Journal 1
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Article in journal 109 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 109 Graue Literatur 108 Non-commercial literature 108 Working Paper 66 Arbeitspapier 63 Collection of articles of several authors 33 Sammelwerk 33 Aufsatzsammlung 20 Hochschulschrift 20 Amtsdruckschrift 18 Government document 18 Aufsatz im Buch 13 Book section 13 Konferenzschrift 12 Thesis 8 Bibliografie enthalten 6 Bibliography included 6 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 6 Case study 5 Fallstudie 5 Company information 4 Firmeninformation 4 Conference proceedings 3 Quelle 3 Amtliche Publikation 2 Bibliographie 2 Mehrbändiges Werk 2 Multi-volume publication 2 Statistics 2 Statistik 2 Article 1 Atlas 1 Ausstellungskatalog 1 Autobiografie 1 Bericht 1 Bibliografie 1 Biografie 1 Collection of articles written by one author 1 Erlebnisbericht 1
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English 376 German 99 Undetermined 58 Russian 9 French 6 Italian 3 Polish 3 Portuguese 3 Spanish 3 Czech 1 Macedonian 1 Romanian 1
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Cinnirella, Francesco 8 Galor, Oded 8 Gershman, Boris 8 Hornung, Erik 8 Ashraf, Quamrul H. 7 Braun, Sebastian 7 Busse, Matthias 7 LeBaron, Genevieve 7 Acemoglu, Daron 6 Wolitzky, Alexander 6 Nafziger, Steven 5 Stanziani, Alessandro 5 Belser, Patrick 4 Breman, Jan 4 Buggle, Johannes C. 4 Dell, Melissa 4 Faguet, Jean-Paul 4 Grieger, Manfred 4 Jones, Sam 4 Markevič, Andrej M. 4 Matajira, Camilo 4 Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. 4 Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel 4 Verwimp, Philip 4 Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina 4 Abad, Leticia 3 Alston, Lee J. 3 Dippel, Christian 3 Dupas, Pascaline 3 Falezan, Camille 3 Fudge, Judy 3 G, Standing 3 Gibbon, Peter 3 Gonzalo, Fernando Mendiola 3 Gregory, Paul R. 3 Greif, Avner 3 Génicot, Garance 3 Harrison, Mark 3 Klein, Alexander 3 Lilienfeld-Toal, Ulf von 3
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International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations 34 Internationales Arbeitsamt 10 National Bureau of Economic Research 10 Deutschland / Bundesregierung 6 International Labour Conference 6 Internationale Arbeitsorganisation 4 International Labour Office 3 Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE 2 HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 2 International Labour Office / Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour 2 International Organization for Migration 2 Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives 2 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung 2 Südwind e.V. 2 USA / Bureau of Labor 2 Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg 2 Walk Free Foundation 2 Aktion Dritte Welt e.V. 1 American Federation of Labor 1 Asian Studies Association of Australia 1 Australian Council for Overseas Aid / Burma Human Rights Project 1 Bonded Labour Liberation Front of India 1 Bonn 1 Campus Verlag 1 Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies 1 Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management 1 Centre for African Studies <Oxford> 1 Centre for Education and Communication <Delhi> 1 Challenges in Researching the Shadow Economy: A Methods Symposium on Forced Labour <2015, Sheffield> 1 Challenges in Researching the Shadow Economy: A Methods Symposium on Forced Labour <2016, London> 1 Conference "Work and Compulsion: Coerced Labour in Domestic, Service, Agricultural, Factory and Sex Work, ca. 1850-2000s" <2014, Linz> 1 Conference on "Slavery and Forced Labour in Asia, C. 1250 - C. 1900: Continuities and Transformations in Comparative Perspective" <2017, Leiden> 1 Coordination gegen Bayer-Gefahren e.V. 1 Department of Economics, University of Warwick 1 Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Bundestag / Innenausschuß 1 Emsländische Landschaft e.V. für die Landkreise Emsland und Grafschaft Bentheim 1 European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management 1 European Commission / Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs 1 European Historical Economics Society - EHES 1 Europäisches Parlament / Policy Department for External Relations 1
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ILO Working Papers 34 NBER working paper series 10 Report / International Labour Conference 8 The journal of economic history 6 Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages / Drucksachen 6 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 5 Discussion papers / CEPR 4 Journal of development economics 4 NBER Working Paper 4 The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly journal of Indian Society of Labour Economics 4 Working papers / Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy 4 Discussion paper series / IZA 3 Documento CEDE 3 Economic history of developing regions 3 Hoover Institution Press publication 3 International labour review 3 International studies in social history 3 Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 3 Studies in global social history 3 Veröffentlichungen der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg 3 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 3 African discourse series 2 Annual report of the Commissioner of Labor 2 Australian economic history review : a journal of economic, business & social history 2 Bericht des Generaldirektors / Internationales Arbeitsamt, Genf. Internationale Arbeitskonferenz 2 Business history review 2 Contributions in American history 2 Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 2 ECONtribute discussion paper 2 Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an internat. society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics 2 Enterprise & society : the international journal of business history 2 HWWA discussion paper 2 International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 2 International journal of operations & production management 2 Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, Memorandum 2 New political economy 2 Quellen und Studien / Westfälisches Industriemuseum 2 Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series 2 Routledge studies in employment and work relations in context 2 Soviet studies : a quarterly review of the social and economic institutions of the USSR 2
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Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa : evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920-74
Jones, Sam; Gibbon, Peter - In: The economic history review 78 (2025) 1, pp. 30-61
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Encomienda, the colonial state, and long-run development in Colombia
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Matajira, Camilo; Sánchez, Fabio - 2024
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The United Kingdom Modern Slavery Act : are we making progress? : a look at organizational commitment to eradicating modern slavery
Carle, Heather; Brewer, Linda - In: Transnational corporations : investment and development 30 (2023) 2, pp. 71-103
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Global estimates of modern slavery : forced labour and forced marriage
Internationales Arbeitsamt; Walk Free Foundation; … - 2022
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What drove the profitability of colonial firms? : labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)
Jones, Sam; Gibbon, Peter - 2022
The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions. However, the link between these institutions and the profitability of firms remains unclear. We reconstruct the...
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Coercion and wage labour : exploring work relations through history and art
Batista, Anamarija (ed.); Müller, Viola Franziska (ed.);  … - 2024
Coercion and Wage Labour presents novel histories of people who experienced physical, social, political or cultural compulsion in the course of paid work. Broad in scope, the chapters examine diverse areas of work including textile production, war industries, civil service and domestic labour,...
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Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains : forced labour in the Malaysia-Nepal-UK medical gloves supply chain
Brown, James A.; Hughes, Alexandra; Bhutta, Mahmood F.; … - In: Competition & change : the journal of global business … 28 (2024) 5, pp. 581-603
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Worker displacement and labor market success : evidence from forced labor conscription during WWII
Stapper, Carola - 2024
Disruptions of labor market trajectories have lasting effects on later economic success. One type of disruption that is understudied is displacement due to forced labor conscription, despite it still being a frequent event nowadays. I study the consequences of exposure to forced labor...
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Long-run impacts of forced labor migration on fertility behaviors : evidence from Colonial West Africa
Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Mabeu, Marie Christelle - 2024
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Profits and poverty : the economics of forced labour
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation - 2024 - Second edition
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Acting against forced labour : an assessment of investment requirements and economic benefits : discussion paper on the economics of forced labour
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation - 2024
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Forced labour : a synthesis report : advances in quantifying forced labour across the world and sectors
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation - 2024
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Cultivating change: the long-term impact of forced labour in Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Coelho, Rachel; … - 2024
Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production-a forced labour system that operated in colonial Mozambique from 1926 to 1961....
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Child labour, Africa's colonial system, and coercion : the case of the Portuguese colonies : 1870-1975
Goulart, Pedro - In: Economic history of developing regions 39 (2024) 1, pp. 82-104
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Modern slavery made in Italy : causes and consequences of labour exploitation in the Italian agricultural sector
Scaturro, Ruggero - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 3 (2021) 2, pp. 181-189
Through this paper, the author emphasises the importance of the role that migrant women and men play in the Italian agricultural sector, and the need to better protect them from forms of labour exploitation. Italian products are well known all over the world and represent the excellency of an...
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Commission proposal for a regulation on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the union market : the issue of remedies : briefing requested by the DROI Subcommittee
O'Brien, Claire Methven; Weatherburn, Amy - Europäisches Parlament / Policy Department for … - 2023
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Abolition of Forced Labour : Case of Uzbekistan
Sulaymanov, Odiljon; Rasulov, Jurabek - 2023
The article analyzes the legal problems in the implementation of international labour standards on the abolition of forced labour in the national legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Fundamental documents of the International Labour Organization on the abolition of forced labour – the...
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Forced labor and health-related outcomes : the case of beggar children
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the...
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Forced labor and health-related outcomes : the case of beggar children
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the...
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Slavery, coercion, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gardner, Leigh - In: Business history review 97 (2023) 2, pp. 199-223
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The muddled governance of state-imposed forced labour : multinational corporations, states, and cotton from China and Uzbekistan
Schaefer, Sonja; Hauge, Jostein - In: New political economy 28 (2023) 5, pp. 799-817
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Bad men, good roads, Jim Crow, and the economics of southern chain gangs
Bodenhorn, Howard - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 149-170
Penology in the Jim Crow South centered on the chain gang. Gangs ostensibly served three purposes: their severity served as a deterrent; their putting convicts to work on roads and other public improvements reduced the taxpayers’ costs of infrastructure; and their discriminatory implementation...
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Regional baseline assessment on forced labour, unfair and unethical recruitment practices in the Southern African and Indian Ocean Commission region
International Organization for Migration - 2023
Revealing the harsh reality of trafficking in persons and forced labour within the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Region, the Regional Baseline Assessment sheds light on prevalent challenges and critical gaps in addressing these criminal activities. Despite efforts to combat trafficking,...
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Managing forced labour obligations as part of your ESG strategy
Richer, Suzanne - In: Journal of supply chain management, logistics and … 6 (2023) 1, pp. 26-34
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Structural change, elite capitalism, and the emergence of labour emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2025
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What drove the profitability of colonial firms? Labour coercion and trade preferences on the Sena Sugar Estates (1920-74)
Jones, Sam; Gibbon, Peter - 2022
The magnitude of returns to colonial-era investments in Africa has been addressed in an extensive literature, as have the nature and legacies of extractive colonial institutions. However, the link between these institutions and the profitability of firms remains unclear. We reconstruct the...
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Economics and history : analyzing serfdom
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2022
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Structural change, elite capitalism, and the emergence of labor emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2022
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Forced labour product ban
European Commission / Directorate-General for Internal … - 2022
Forced labour continues to be a major global issue. The latest International Labour Organization's estimates put the global number of people in forced labour at 27.6 million. Though this phenomenon impacts some parts of the world more than others, all continents are affected. The respect for...
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From plantations to prisons : the race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
Rubio-Ramos, Melissa - 2022
This paper documents the emergence of a race gap in incarceration after the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Counties that relied more on slave labor incarcerated more African Americans, with no comparable effects for whites. An increase of slave reliance by 10% increases black incarceration...
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Disentangling the knot: identifying U.S. and global exposure to Xinjiang cotton
Carlson, Dylan; Weaver, Marin - 2022
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Confronting the business models of modern slavery
Crane, Andrew; LeBaron, Genevieve; Phung, Kam; … - In: Journal of management inquiry 31 (2022) 3, pp. 264-285
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Constructive extraction? : encomienda, the colonial state, and development in Colombia
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Matajira, Camilo; Sánchez Torres, Fabio - 2022
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The demographic effects of colonialism : forced labor and mortality in Java : 1834-1879
Zwart, Pim de; Gallardo-Albarrán, Daniel; Rijpma, Auke - In: The journal of economic history 82 (2022) 1, pp. 211-249
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Blue trade and forced labour : breaking the resounding silence of international economic law
Choukroune, Leïla; Nedumpara, James J. - In: The journal of world investment & trade : law, … 23 (2022) 1, pp. 95-121
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Forced labour and risk factors for inferior working conditions in Thai fishing sector
Arimoto, Yutaka; Machikita, Tomohiro; Tsubota, Kenmei - 2018
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Does time heal all wounds? : the rise, decline, and long-term impact of forced labor in Spanish America
Abad, Leticia; Maurer, Noel - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 93 (2024), pp. 1-20
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Marx on colonization and bonded labor : the end of capital and the beginning of a journey
McNally, David - 2024
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Bound labor in the turpentine belt : Kinderlou Camp and misdemeanor convict leasing in Georgia
Aiello, Thomas - 2024
"In this book, Thomas Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South's dependence on systems of bound labor during the post-Reconstruction era through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, drawing attention to the injustices and abuses of misdemeanor convict leasing."
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Reducing forced labour in supply chains : what could traditional companies learn from social enterprises?
Vanpoucke, Evelyne; Klassen, Robert David - In: International journal of operations & production management 44 (2024) 10, pp. 1803-1830
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Beyond constraint : middle/passages of Blackness and indigeneity in the radical tradition
Jackson, Shona N. - 2024
"In Beyond Constraint, Shona N. Jackson offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between Black and Indigenous People's sovereign, free, and coerced labour in the Americas. Through the writings of Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James,...
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Forced labour in the fashion industry : a hypothetical EU-driven reorganisation of textile value chains
García-Alaminos, Angela; Zafrilla, Jorge; Monsalve, Fabio - In: Economic systems research 36 (2024) 3, pp. 451-476
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Reducing forced labour in supply chains : what could traditional companies learn from social enterprises?
Vanpoucke, Evelyne; Klassen, Robert David - In: International journal of operations & production management 44 (2024) 10, pp. 1786-1813
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A Business Case for Human Rights at Work? Experimental Evidence on Labor Trafficking and Child Labor at Brick Kilns in Bangladesh
Miller, Grant; Biswas, Debashish; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...
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Understanding the Impact of Low-Cost Loans on Forced Labor
Sharma, Anisha; Shah, Manisha; Łuczywek, Beata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Approximately 27.5 million individuals fell victim to forced labor in 2021. The Indian construction industry is particularly vulnerable to forced labor as workers experience excessive work hours, required work on rest days, and unpaid wages. Micro-contractors (MCs), who oversee worker...
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Worthy of freedom : indenture and free labor in the era of emancipation
Connolly, Jonathan - 2024
A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indentures normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the normalization of indenture from its controversial beginnings to its widespread adoption across the British...
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Prison Labor : The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
Archibong, Belinda; Obikili, Nonso - 2021
Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are used primarily as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized...
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Forced Labor in Colonial Spanish America
Abad, Leticia; Maurer, Noel - 2021
The Spanish colonial empire initially faced a trilemma in the New World. First, they needed to incentivize quasi-private Spanish expeditions to subdue, settle, and secure new territories. Second, they needed labor to develop the new territories and provide a stream of rents for the imperial...
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Low-Skilled Labor Shortages Contribute to Forced Labor — Evidence From Myanmar and Thailand
de Zegher, Joann F.; Liu, Boyu; Rende Taylor, Lisa; … - 2021
Over 25 million people are victims of forced labor globally; the vast majority are low-skilled migrant workers who migrated from a different country or region. Evidence so far indicates that much of labor exploitation has roots in the recruitment process. This motivates the question of whether...
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Did the colonial mita cause a population collapse? : what current surnames reveal in Peru
Carpio, Miguel A.; Guerrero, María Eugenia - In: The journal of economic history 81 (2021) 4, pp. 1015-1051
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