Is research on forced labour at an ‘early stage’? Introduction to the Special Issue by Lasocik Zbigniew

“…Writing about the progress in the fight against forced labor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings Maria Grazia Giammarinaro in 2020 said that were still at an “early stage”. …”
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The Key Issues of Labor Migration in the Czech Republic by Marie JELINKOVA

“…The paper also focuses on the role of state, police, and NGO’s in the trafficking in human beings and forced labor or labor exploitation in the Czech Republic. …”
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Non-cooperative two-echelon supply chains with a focus on social responsibility by Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Zenonas Turskis, Ahmad Jafarnejad, Ali Rezayar

“…The results indicate that the profit of manufacturer and retailer reduces by increasing the proportion of forced labor. Based upon Nash equilibrium, the manufacturer’s profit decreases with a slight slope; nonetheless, on retailer and manufacturer leadership models, the profit decreases with a slight increase of the forced labor.…”
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Improving Labor Market Design to Reduce Labor Abuse in the Global Supply Chain in Southeast Asia by Liu, Boyu

“…Forced labor and labor abuse have become a growing concern in the global supply chain. …”
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Le Japon et la Cour pénale internationale : enjeux politiques et mémoriels by Eric Seizelet

“…It also stresses the awkward situation the Japanese government had to face : as member of the ICC, it will have to deal with issues such as sexual slavery and forced labor for which the conservative elite showed in the past a quite failing and selective memory. …”
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Selling Souls: An Empirical Analysis of Human Trafficking and Globalization by M. Tariq Majeed (Corresponding author)

“…Findings of the study show that globalization facilitates human trafficking, particularly, forced prostitution, forced labor and debt bondages while it helps to suppress the demand and supply of child soldiers. …”
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Unfinished business : a comparative survey of historical and contemporary slavery / by Quirk, Joel, Unesco. Slave Route (Project), Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

How Conflict and Displacement Fuel Human Trafficking and Abuse of Vulnerable Groups. The Case of Colombia and Opportunities for Real Action and Innovative Solutions. by Luz Estella Nagle

“…The growth in illegal mining operations by illegal armed groups and organized crime is also fueling conditions of forced labor. Trafficking victims are dehumanized and suffer grave physical and mental illness and often die at the hands of their captors and exploiters. …”
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Discussion about principles of lobour organizing in Soviet Russia in 1920 by L V Borisova

“…In the article the various points of view on the work organization, stated by heads of the Soviet Russia are analyzed during discussion about militarization and forced labor by spring of 1920.…”
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Digital Interview Collections at Freie Universität Berlin. Survivors’ Testimonies as Research Data by Cord Pagenstecher

“…This paper presents the digital interview collections available at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on the online archive Forced Labor 1939–1945. Then, it discusses the potentials and challenges of digital curation and analysis of testimony collections within different direction of the Digital Humanities. …”
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Bringing by force and notice in search - present ensuring of the defendant in the court by Ialanji Arina

“…In this article we will analyze the legal provisions and the procedure of forced labor demand and announcement ordered by the court after the procedure of legal summoning of a defendant who has been evaded since the presentation in court. …”
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Chalámov e Dostoiévski: uma perspectiva sobre Recordações da Casa dos Mortos by Andrea Zeppini Menezes da Silva

“…Arrested in 1849, Dostoevsky spent four years in a forced labor prison in Siberia. About this period, he wrote Memoirs from the House of the Dead. …”
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Contemporary Slavery and the Struggle for Self-Determination: The Case of the Guaraní People from the Bolivian Chaco by Aleksandra Bergier

“… Contemporary Slavery and the Struggle for Self-Determination: The Case of the Guaraní People from the Bolivian Chaco For over a century, the Bolivian Guaraní people have been subjected to infrahuman treatment which involved practices such as slavery, forced labor and servitude. The new agrarian legislation, aimed at reversing the concentration of the economic and social power in the hands of a small regional elite, represented a shift in a state policy, facilitating the access of indigenous peoples to collective land property and thereby enabling them to break away from the conditions of debt bondage and forced labor. …”
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Contradictions of international migration in terms of political economy by Josifidis Kosta, Lošonc Alpar, Supić Novica

“…Demographic dynamics is essential in this context, but the authors intend to identify those political economy processes that lead to high precariousness, to various forms of temporary labor which are closely associated with forced labor forms. The category of forced labor is emphasized in the contemporary forms of migration, because this mode of labor facilitates the migration throughout the world. …”
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Museums, Manga, Memorials and Korean-Japanese History Wars by Jeff KINGSTON

“…In 2014 there was controversy over a Japanese manga exhibit that resonates with broader bilateral disputes over colonial history ranging from the comfort women to forced labor. These battles over the shared past have become internationalized, stoking mutual vilification and jingoistic sentiments         …”
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Ottobah Cugoano on British Slavery, National Debt, and Speculative Finance by Carrie DeAnne Shanafelt

“…In his Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano theorized that the creditors of the rapidly growing national debt had begun to use their growing financial leverage to manipulate the political priorities of Great Britain in order to deepen national dependence on plantation slavery and expand moral complicity in human trafficking and forced labor. This article examines Cugoano's charge of national guilt in the context of eighteenth-century debates about public debt and the profits of slave-trading, as well as in the context of twenty-first-century financial exploitation of global disasters and labor abuse.…”
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Domov a návraty osob přemístěných během druhé světové války (Displaced Persons) by Jana Kasíková

“…Years of imprisonment in concentration camps, in forced labor or exile have left an indelible mark on the lives of individuals. …”
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Public Memory and detected signals of justice. Outline for a theory of public space in transition by Alexandru Florian

“…In 1953, Radu Dinulescu, former chief of the 2nd Section within the General Staff of the Romanian Army, was convicted to 15 years of forced labor and 10 years of civic degradation. He was found guilty of several counts among which the involvement in the organization of the Iași Pogrom and the deportation of Jews. …”
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Violencia de género y violencia sexual del conflicto armado colombiano by Ivonne Suárez Pinzón

“…The text addresses a topic of considerable interest, namely, the specific forms of violence suffered by Colombian women who are victims of forced labor in the context of internal armed conflict displacement. …”
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KENYA’S CONSTITUTION AND CHILD TRAFFICKING AS A SECURITY THREAT by E.O.S. ODHIAMBO, J. KASSILLY, L.T. MAITO, K. ONKWARE, W. A. OBOKA

“…This article discusses three forms of child trafficking: sexual exploitation, forced labor and child soldiers and argues that the newly promulgated Kenyan constitution in chapter three on citizenship has a provision that can be interpreted as encouraging child trafficking.…”
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