LBST 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transnationality, Unfree Labour, Multilateral Treaty
23 Jan 2017
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Unfree labor: work relations wherein people are employed against their will by the threat of destitution, detention, violence, lawful compulsion, or other extreme hardship to themselves or to members of their families. Payments for unfree labor: does not exceed subsistence or barely exceeds it. Payment is in goods which are not desirable and/or cannot be exchanged or are difficult to exchange. Payment wholly or mostly consists of cancellation of a debt or liability that was itself coerced, or belongs to someone else. They may be bought and sold or otherwise exchanged by owners. They will never receive any personal benefit from their labor. Forced labor: term for those in work relations where all work is involuntary or service exacted under the menace of a penalty. Consequence of a conviction in a court of law, emergency situations (war, calamity, fire, flood, etc. )
