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The Cost of Coercion
ILO Publications 2009; US$ 35.00Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principlesand Rights at Work, 2009. International Labour Conference, 98th Session 2009,Report I (B) more...
Apprenticeships
Kogan Page 2012; US$ 19.95Apprenticeships is a complete guide containing frequently asked questions from students, parents and job-seekers. It's packed with quotations, case studies, useful advice, practical checklists, self-assessment questionnaires and also includes a list of useful websites and organisations. more...
Workers in Bondage
University of Queensland Press 1982; US$ 15.00Workers in Bondage is primarily concerned with Queensland?s Pacific Islander labour force, but it begins with the origins of servitude in Queensland during the convict era before separation from New South Wales in 1859. The book also deals with the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labour and describes... more...
Bonded Labor
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 28.99In Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, Siddharth Kara conducted one of the most comprehensive, systematic accounts of the global sex-trafficking industry. His book became a widely consulted resource not only for its uncommon revelations into an unconscionable business but also for its detailed analysis of the trade?s immense economic... more...
ILO Global Estimate of Forced Labour
ILO Publications 2012; US$ 16.00The purpose of the present document is to describe in detail the revised methodology used to generate the 2012 ILO global estimate of forced labour, covering the period from 2002 to 2011, and the main results obtained. more...
The Politics and Civics of National Service
Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 32.95In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program?the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind?nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens... more...
Bonded Histories
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 46.00An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar. more...
Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This project examines the development of forced labor in colonial Kenya from 1912 to 1930 and the parallel normalization of communal forced labor during this time period. more...
Apprenticeship In England, 1600-1914
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 153.00A social history of the changing fortunes of apprentices and the system of apprenticeship over three centuries of English history. more...
The Coolie Speaks
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 28.95The Coolie Speaks focuses on Chinese laborers who worked side by side with African slaves in Cuba and wrote of their experiences of new bondage. Examining these narratives of resistance, the book reconceptualizes diasporic representations and histories to offer transformative re-examinations of "Chinese," "African," and "Latino" in mutually imbricated... more...









