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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 21 2018, @12:09AM
Just wait until the new SCOTUS decides that because FPI is a corporation that operates across state lines, the state laws are overridden because hurr durr interstate commerce clause. I can see them doing that.
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