Modern Slavery in Business: The Sad and Sorry State of a Non-Field
And yet, development into what we might call a "field" of modern slavery research in business and management remains significantly, and disappointingly, underdeveloped. ... 2019), the profitability and productivity of slave labor compared with wage labor (Genovese, 1989; Tomich, 2017), and the role and ... (Working Paper No. 32). Research ...
Full article: Were slaves cheap laborers? A comparative study of labor
Historical context: the rise of slavery in colonial America. Some scholars have argued that slavery arose in the Americas since wage labor was 'impossible' there (see for example G. Wright, Citation 1978, p. 43).As is well-established from previous research, the early settlement of the American colonies was to a large extent undertaken by indentured servants who had been recruited in Europe.
Slave Past, Modern Lives: An Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery and
Using a variety of data sources, such as the US Census, American Community Survey (ACS), the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings, and spatially robust OLS regression analysis, I find that in southern counties where slavery was denser black life ...
Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade: History and Historiography
Models of Slavery and Resistance. While each country in the Americas has its own national historiography on slavery, from a 21st-century perspective, it is hard to overestimate the role that US-based scholars played in shaping the agenda of slavery studies. Analyses of American plantation records began around the turn of the 20th century.Early debates emerged in particular over the conditions ...
PDF The Political Legacy of American Slavery
McLean (2003) find a negative relationship between slavery and modern-day labor productivity. These papers are part of a growing literature that shows that historical institutions such as slavery can affect both institutional and behavioral outcomes long after the institutions themselves disappear (Nunn 2009). This work complements an existing ...
Full article: Modern slavery and exploitative work regimes: an
This Special Issue covers an intersectional approach to extreme labour exploitation. We provide concrete empirical studies and new theoretical frameworks. This overview paper analyses how modern slavery theories might influence policy options. The theories examined in this Special Issue include supply-chain theories, feminist approaches to work ...
Whitewashing Slavery: Legacy of Slavery and White Social Outcomes
See either of those papers for the full details, but, in short, the county-level slavery data from 1860 was reallocated geographically to match contemporary county boundaries. ... Other research shows places that relied slave labor through Emancipation tended to continue to lean on agricultural and other low-wage labor and eschew ...
Modern slavery in supply chains: a systematic literature review
1. Introduction. Modern slavery in supply chains, including various forms of human trafficking, forced labour, and child labour, is a complex and severe issue that has emerged in global supply chains in recent years (Bales, Trodd, and Williamson Citation 2009).Because of the complexity and invisibility of modern slavery in the supply chain, we are currently unable to estimate accurately how ...
Empirical business research on modern slavery in supply chains: A
1. Introduction. The regulation of slavery has a long history, and the first international instrument condemning the practice was passed in the early nineteenth century (Declaration Relative to the Universal Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1815).Since then, over 300 international agreements have been implemented to outlaw slavery (see Bales, 2005), and half of the world's domestic ...
The Economics of Slavery, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking
Abstract. This paper is a review of the literature on slavery, forced labor and human trafficking, which all involve the use of coercion in the production of goods and services. Applying economic ...
The Concept of Modern Slavery: Definition, Critique, and the Human
Key Documents. Depending on the perspective, the concept of slavery is defined rather concisely or rather controversially. "More than 300 international slavery treaties have been signed since 1815, but they rarely used the same definition." (Bales 2005, p. 3, also cf. Skinner 2009, p.35) However, a short overview of the key documents shows that definitions of modern slavery did manage to ...
Gender and Slavery
Abstract. In the last three decades, gender has become an indispensable category of analysis in the study of slavery in the Americas, illuminating both the day-to-day lives of enslaved and enslaving peoples and ideas about race and slavery. While studying gender means much more than studying women, the literature on enslaved women is especially ...
Modern slavery and labor exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a
Modern slavery is an umbrella term that refers to 'exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power' and includes the legal concepts of human trafficking, forced labor, and forced marriage [ 1 ]. The exploitative conditions and abuse experienced in forced labor, sex ...
Human trafficking and labor exploitation: Toward identifying
Global estimates suggest that about 25 million people are subjected to "modern slavery" in the form of forced labor or human trafficking [].These men, women, and children are often migrant workers who are exploited in diverse sectors, such as agriculture, mining, fishing, factory work, domestic work, and forced sex work [1,2].Although the eradication of modern slavery is among the 2030 ...
Slavery and the new history of capitalism
Abstract. The new history of capitalism (NHC) places a great deal of emphasis on slavery as a crucial world institution. Slavery, it is alleged, arose out of, and underpinned, capitalist development. This article starts by showing the intellectual and scholarly foundations of some of the broad conclusions of the NHC.
The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the available literature. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries ...
(PDF) The Economic, Political, and Social Impact of the Atlantic Slave
Abstract. The Transatlantic slave trade radically impaired Africa's potential to develop economically and maintain its social and political stability. The arrival of Europeans on the West African ...
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ABSTRACT. This working paper explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here "cliometrics" is defined as a method of scientific analysis marked by the explicit use of economic theory and quantitative methods.
PDF Human Trafficking: Modern-day Slavery in Need of A Modern-day Solution
forced labor, sex trafficking, bonded labor, migrant workersږ debt bondage, and forced child labor. Forced labor is also known as involuntary servitude. In this form, workers become the object of exploitation of unscrupulous employers due to ڙhigh rates of unemployment, poverty, crime, discrimination, corruption and political conflict.ښ2 In
Child modern slavery, trafficking and health: a practical review of
Introduction 'Modern slavery' is an umbrella term for criminal acts of severe human exploitation. 1 For victims under the age of 18 years, modern slavery in its myriad forms is considered violence against children (as defined by WHO 2), child abuse and a gross child rights violation compelling an urgent safeguarding and healthcare response. Child trafficking, perhaps the most recognised ...
Behind the Cattle Industry: Modern Slave Labor Used to Produce Brazil's
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101000 Corpus ID: 269727285; Behind the Cattle Industry: Modern Slave Labor Used to Produce Brazil's Beef and Leather @article{Brando2024BehindTC, title={Behind the Cattle Industry: Modern Slave Labor Used to Produce Brazil's Beef and Leather}, author={Juliana Brand{\~a}o and Lisa L. Rausch and Jacob Munger and Lisa Naughton-Treves and Holly K. Gibbs}, journal ...
Farmworker Protections and Labor Conditions in Brazil's Coffee Sector
This report outlines the findings of more than two years of research by CRS and Repórter Brasil on cases of modern slavery in Brazil's coffee sector. The authors also advance a series of recommendations at the close of this report for policymakers, private-sector leaders, and consumers in order to more effectively contribute to the definitive eradication of slave labor.
Race and Urine Toxicology Testing Among Pregnant Patients During Labor
An estimated 16% of pregnant persons in the US use alcohol (10%) or an illicit substance (6%, including cannabis). 1 Urine toxicology testing (UTT) is often performed at the time of labor and delivery for pregnant patients to evaluate substance use. 2,3 We sought to elucidate associations between race and receipt of UTT and a positive test ...
Full article: When Victims of Modern Slavery Became Offenders: The
The authors acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/R004471/1) in funding the study for which the interview material presented in this article was collected. They are also grateful to Sarah Devaney, Stephen Knight, Rudolph Spurling and Phillipa Roberts for their critical feedback on earlier drafts of this paper.
Work Requirements with No Teeth Still Bite: Disenrollment and Labor
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy ... Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP General Work Requirements. Jason B. Cook & Chloe N. East. Share. X LinkedIn Email. Working Paper 32441 ...
Female labor force participation
The global labor force participation rate for women is just over 50% compared to 80% for men. Women are less likely to work in formal employment and have fewer opportunities for business expansion or career progression. When women do work, they earn less. Emerging evidence from recent household survey data suggests that these gender gaps are ...
Reshoring, Automation, and Labor Markets Under Trade Uncertainty
Hamid Firooz. Download PDF. (864 KB) 2024-16 | May 8, 2024. We study the implications of trade uncertainty for reshoring, automation, and U.S. labor markets. Rising trade uncertainty creates incentive for firms to reduce exposures to foreign suppliers by moving production and distribution processes to domestic producers.
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May 15, 2024 3 AM PT. ROME —. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's speech on climate change at the Vatican this week gives him an opportunity to align himself and his party with Pope Francis, an ...
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And yet, development into what we might call a "field" of modern slavery research in business and management remains significantly, and disappointingly, underdeveloped. ... 2019), the profitability and productivity of slave labor compared with wage labor (Genovese, 1989; Tomich, 2017), and the role and ... (Working Paper No. 32). Research ...
Historical context: the rise of slavery in colonial America. Some scholars have argued that slavery arose in the Americas since wage labor was 'impossible' there (see for example G. Wright, Citation 1978, p. 43).As is well-established from previous research, the early settlement of the American colonies was to a large extent undertaken by indentured servants who had been recruited in Europe.
Using a variety of data sources, such as the US Census, American Community Survey (ACS), the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings, and spatially robust OLS regression analysis, I find that in southern counties where slavery was denser black life ...
Models of Slavery and Resistance. While each country in the Americas has its own national historiography on slavery, from a 21st-century perspective, it is hard to overestimate the role that US-based scholars played in shaping the agenda of slavery studies. Analyses of American plantation records began around the turn of the 20th century.Early debates emerged in particular over the conditions ...
McLean (2003) find a negative relationship between slavery and modern-day labor productivity. These papers are part of a growing literature that shows that historical institutions such as slavery can affect both institutional and behavioral outcomes long after the institutions themselves disappear (Nunn 2009). This work complements an existing ...
This Special Issue covers an intersectional approach to extreme labour exploitation. We provide concrete empirical studies and new theoretical frameworks. This overview paper analyses how modern slavery theories might influence policy options. The theories examined in this Special Issue include supply-chain theories, feminist approaches to work ...
See either of those papers for the full details, but, in short, the county-level slavery data from 1860 was reallocated geographically to match contemporary county boundaries. ... Other research shows places that relied slave labor through Emancipation tended to continue to lean on agricultural and other low-wage labor and eschew ...
1. Introduction. Modern slavery in supply chains, including various forms of human trafficking, forced labour, and child labour, is a complex and severe issue that has emerged in global supply chains in recent years (Bales, Trodd, and Williamson Citation 2009).Because of the complexity and invisibility of modern slavery in the supply chain, we are currently unable to estimate accurately how ...
1. Introduction. The regulation of slavery has a long history, and the first international instrument condemning the practice was passed in the early nineteenth century (Declaration Relative to the Universal Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1815).Since then, over 300 international agreements have been implemented to outlaw slavery (see Bales, 2005), and half of the world's domestic ...
Abstract. This paper is a review of the literature on slavery, forced labor and human trafficking, which all involve the use of coercion in the production of goods and services. Applying economic ...
Key Documents. Depending on the perspective, the concept of slavery is defined rather concisely or rather controversially. "More than 300 international slavery treaties have been signed since 1815, but they rarely used the same definition." (Bales 2005, p. 3, also cf. Skinner 2009, p.35) However, a short overview of the key documents shows that definitions of modern slavery did manage to ...
Abstract. In the last three decades, gender has become an indispensable category of analysis in the study of slavery in the Americas, illuminating both the day-to-day lives of enslaved and enslaving peoples and ideas about race and slavery. While studying gender means much more than studying women, the literature on enslaved women is especially ...
Modern slavery is an umbrella term that refers to 'exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power' and includes the legal concepts of human trafficking, forced labor, and forced marriage [ 1 ]. The exploitative conditions and abuse experienced in forced labor, sex ...
Global estimates suggest that about 25 million people are subjected to "modern slavery" in the form of forced labor or human trafficking [].These men, women, and children are often migrant workers who are exploited in diverse sectors, such as agriculture, mining, fishing, factory work, domestic work, and forced sex work [1,2].Although the eradication of modern slavery is among the 2030 ...
Abstract. The new history of capitalism (NHC) places a great deal of emphasis on slavery as a crucial world institution. Slavery, it is alleged, arose out of, and underpinned, capitalist development. This article starts by showing the intellectual and scholarly foundations of some of the broad conclusions of the NHC.
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the available literature. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries ...
Abstract. The Transatlantic slave trade radically impaired Africa's potential to develop economically and maintain its social and political stability. The arrival of Europeans on the West African ...
ABSTRACT. This working paper explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here "cliometrics" is defined as a method of scientific analysis marked by the explicit use of economic theory and quantitative methods.
forced labor, sex trafficking, bonded labor, migrant workersږ debt bondage, and forced child labor. Forced labor is also known as involuntary servitude. In this form, workers become the object of exploitation of unscrupulous employers due to ڙhigh rates of unemployment, poverty, crime, discrimination, corruption and political conflict.ښ2 In
Introduction 'Modern slavery' is an umbrella term for criminal acts of severe human exploitation. 1 For victims under the age of 18 years, modern slavery in its myriad forms is considered violence against children (as defined by WHO 2), child abuse and a gross child rights violation compelling an urgent safeguarding and healthcare response. Child trafficking, perhaps the most recognised ...
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101000 Corpus ID: 269727285; Behind the Cattle Industry: Modern Slave Labor Used to Produce Brazil's Beef and Leather @article{Brando2024BehindTC, title={Behind the Cattle Industry: Modern Slave Labor Used to Produce Brazil's Beef and Leather}, author={Juliana Brand{\~a}o and Lisa L. Rausch and Jacob Munger and Lisa Naughton-Treves and Holly K. Gibbs}, journal ...
This report outlines the findings of more than two years of research by CRS and Repórter Brasil on cases of modern slavery in Brazil's coffee sector. The authors also advance a series of recommendations at the close of this report for policymakers, private-sector leaders, and consumers in order to more effectively contribute to the definitive eradication of slave labor.
An estimated 16% of pregnant persons in the US use alcohol (10%) or an illicit substance (6%, including cannabis). 1 Urine toxicology testing (UTT) is often performed at the time of labor and delivery for pregnant patients to evaluate substance use. 2,3 We sought to elucidate associations between race and receipt of UTT and a positive test ...
The authors acknowledge the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/R004471/1) in funding the study for which the interview material presented in this article was collected. They are also grateful to Sarah Devaney, Stephen Knight, Rudolph Spurling and Phillipa Roberts for their critical feedback on earlier drafts of this paper.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy ... Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP General Work Requirements. Jason B. Cook & Chloe N. East. Share. X LinkedIn Email. Working Paper 32441 ...
The global labor force participation rate for women is just over 50% compared to 80% for men. Women are less likely to work in formal employment and have fewer opportunities for business expansion or career progression. When women do work, they earn less. Emerging evidence from recent household survey data suggests that these gender gaps are ...
Hamid Firooz. Download PDF. (864 KB) 2024-16 | May 8, 2024. We study the implications of trade uncertainty for reshoring, automation, and U.S. labor markets. Rising trade uncertainty creates incentive for firms to reduce exposures to foreign suppliers by moving production and distribution processes to domestic producers.
May 15, 2024 3 AM PT. ROME —. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's speech on climate change at the Vatican this week gives him an opportunity to align himself and his party with Pope Francis, an ...