[Slave Labour Criticism and Primark: Whose voice will be prevailing?]

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Abstract

Slave labour is really a global problem that affects all regions and all countries, both industrialized and developing, rich or poor. Industries workforce intensive and unregulated are the most affected: agriculture, work domestic, construction, mining, brick making, processing and packaging industry, entertainment industry and prostitution. Slave labour is the antithesis of decent work and broke every core labour standards. Workers slave are often subject to discrimination based on membership ethnicity or gender. Preconceptions that make some groups of people are considered inferior - in addition to their precarious economic-are to be included among the root causes as a whole. Slave labour of children is one of the "worst Forms of Child Labour ", by the standards of the Organization International Labour. At present, children are up to 50% of victims of slave labour.

Table of Content

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTii

DECLARATIONiii

ABSTRACTiv

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background2

Aims and Objectives4

Significance of the study4

Research Questions6

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW7

Slave Trade9

Restriction on freedom of movement11

Forced labor or slavery?13

Slave labor and Business?13

Trade union rights14

Global Unions14

Problems with slave labor15

Slavery and the Racial Order in businesses16

Effects of Modern Business Growth17

The Economy Of Slavery19

Concluding Remarks20

REFERENCES22

BIBLIOGRAPHY25

Chapter 1: Introduction

While at the end of the nineteenth century , slavery old "classic" (where the slave is a non-free, a good, a commodity, an economic instrument that can be bought or sold, a slave that is might call "physical") seems definitively abolished in most countries, few consciences are concerned about new forms of slavery that seem resurface. It is in this context that delegates to the first pan-African conference in London are sent to Queen Victoria, a memorandum denouncing "the system of native African labour force in Rhodesia, the system engaged, legalized slavery, and forced labour.” For the first time, the notion of modern slavery is that forced labour is one of the avatars. On 25 September 1926, the League of Nations adopted a convention calling for such suppression of slavery and referring to forced labour, although the latter is only partially recognized condemned because he could not "be required to public purposes." (Sutton, 1994, 944)

A slave is a person controlled by one or more individuals so that his will does not determine the course of his life, the right to obtain payment for his work and sacrifices him is not granted. According to Kevin Bales, a world expert in the field of contemporary slavery, "people are enslaved by violence and against their will for purposes of exploitation." While most of us consider slavery as a phenomenon of the past, the practice is still thriving in environments where ...