The Political Economy of New Slavery

This unique volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration with empirical chapters on trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labo...

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Other Authors: Anker, Christien van den (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2004, 2004
Series:Palgrave Texts in International Political Economy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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