When we think of slavery, many of us think of historical or so-called "traditional forms" of slavery – and of the 12m people ripped from their West African homes and shipped across the Atlantic for a lifetime in the plantations of the Americas.
But slavery is not just something that happened in the past –- the modern day estimate for the number of men, women and children forced into labour worldwide exceeds 40m. Today's global slave trade is so lucrative that it nets traffickers more than US$150 billion each year.
The article asserts that much of today's slavery is being driven by the demand for electronic goods.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday October 19 2018, @05:01PM
This is happening in the US. There's even an unofficial connection to the criminal justice system.
Turns out, if you post bail for someone, you can revoke it at any time and they go back to jail.
There are crooked bail bondsmen who will bail out a woman and then inform her that she has a new job in sex work where she doesn't keep the earnings, and if she doesn't like it she gets locked up again. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/29/revealed-how-us-sex-traffickers-recruit-jailed-women-for-prostitution-the-trap [theguardian.com]