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posted by mrpg on Friday October 19 2018, @02:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the or-suffering-it dept.

Phys.org:

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.


[Edit: fixed ILO links]

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @10:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @10:08PM (#751177)

    Of course they wanted to work. That job probably payed a dollar a day rather than 10 cents. Now, go look up how much commisary (where you get clothing, hygienic supplies, and food with slightly more nutritive value than cardboard that doesn't come in boxes labeled "Not Fit For Animal Consumption"), phone time, and medical care (they don't accept insurance), costs when you're behind bars. Exploitation is exploitation, and institutionalization makes people happy to be exploited.

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