The spread of slavery in the Age of Globalization

Morena Altieri
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Morena Altieri: University of Naples ”L´Orientale”, Naples, Italy

Sociology and Social Work Review, 2020, vol. 4, issue 1, 19-30

Abstract: According to the definition expressed by the world Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.C.S.E.), globalization is the process through which production and markets of the different countries of the world become increasingly Independent of each other in the context of the exchange of goods and services for capital movements, facilitated by modern communication technologies, such as the Internet in the first place. Although Global wealth has been increasing, with regard to profits, this process exacerbates the inequalities between the North and South of the world, between strong and weak Countries, as the latter know enormous capital gains from the former, due to the Low cost of the workforce, given the practical absence of any legal and Union protection. Those that are called new slavery Find in these postmodern economic processes their ground of culture, because the location of the capitals in the poor countries, produces a workforce of slaves, of workers on which one exerts an absolute control and Coercive. Slavery unfortunately is not a reminder of a past memory, even today millions of people live in these conditions even if officially slavery is condemned and prohibited by all States. We do not know the exact number of modern slaves, we speak of some tens of millions, and many are children. Modern forms of slavery take on different names, slavery for debts, serfdom, forced labour, sexual exploitation, premature marriage slavery for ritual or religious reasons, but they all have a common denominator: it's about compulsion to the work of human beings who have become the property of another person. Slaves are always part of the poorest and most vulnerable sectors of society. It is a kind of group with a lower social status, indigenous populations or nomadic groups, very often women and children. But They do not become slaves because of their belonging, but this is what predisposes them to poverty and exploitation and therefore to slavery.

Keywords: globalization; slavery; international rights; conventions; European Union; UN; International Organizations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F60 I38 K40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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