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  • Human Bondageby Lakshmidhar Mishra

    SAGE India 2011; US$ 49.95

    Human Bondage: Tracing its Roots in India is an in-depth study of bonded labour with special focus on how the system exists in India. The book provides us with a detailed analysis of the historical, social and cultural context in which bondage has developed. The author discusses the socio-economic characteristics that accompany bondage: caste, illiteracy,... more...

  • Forced Labour and Human Traffickingby International Labor Organization

    ILO Publications 2009; US$ 32.00

    The present casebook fills an important gap. It covers a range of national experience, from judicial decisions on forced and bonded labour in a number of developing countries, through to the more recent decisions on forced labour and trafficking in industrialized countries. In particular, it seeks to illustrate how national court decisions have taken... more...

  • Apprenticeship for Adulthoodby Stephen F. Hamilton

    Free Press 2010; Not Available

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    Free Press 2010; Not Available

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  • Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic Worldby Paul E. Lovejoy; Nicholas Rogers

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95

    This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West. more...

  • The Political Economy of New Slaveryby Christien van den Anker

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 44.00

    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 labour in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It provides... more...

  • The Craft Apprenticeby W.J. Rorabaugh

    Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 34.00

    The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, William Lloyd Garrison,... more...

  • Nobodiesby John Bowe

    Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00

    Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren?t paid for their labor?people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies , award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, immigration fraud, and sleights... more...

  • A Future for the Excludedby Raff Carmen; Miguel Sobrado

    Zed Books 2000; US$ 36.95

    Clodomir Santos de Morais is to organizational and entrepreneurial literacy what his Brazilian confrere, Paulo Freire, is to ordinary literacy. This book introduces for the first time in English the experiences of grassroots development workers who have applied his ideas of the Organization Workshop and capacitation in highly diverse social settings.... more...

  • The Means to Grow Upby Robert Halpern

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 48.95

    In The Means to Grow Up , Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"?a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences under the guidance of skilled professionals. Employing... more...