The thing about religious fanaticism (well one of many things) is that can be a very easy excuse for labor exploitation. If you don't work 16 hours a day for no pay, you must hate the god of your choice, whether the Big JC or...
forced labor
Another good move from the Biden administration to enforce laws against slave labor making products for import: U.S. officials have begun blocking the import of solar panels that they believe.
I've haven't talked about this much in awhile, but when I wrote Out of Sight, I focused a good bit on forced labor in the fishing industry. The shorter version.
Above: A jawbone discovered at a Malaysian human trafficking site This is what happens when you elect a president who cares about labor. United States Customs and Border Protection has ordered port officials to seize disposable gloves made by the world’s largest rubber glove maker,...
The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center has a report out about forced labor from Turkmenistan in the cotton supply chains. It's a pretty bloody awful story. Cotton bound for global markets from.
Oh, just violating the 13th Amendment. Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all.
Usually when I talk about unfree labor, it's overseas in supply chains producing products for western markets. But the U.S. has several of its own systemic versions of unfree labor--widespread use of prison labor, sweatshops in Los Angeles, etc. Another is in the seafood industry...
In Out of Sight, I argue for the need of international enforceable labor standards that empower workers to seek redress for their exploitation through the courts of the company who.
As many of you know, the response of some Confederate planters to the defeat of their treasonous actions was to decamp with their slaves to Brazil and start over. Today,.