"This book explores areas of human experience that are highly complex, and which evoke powerful and contradictory feelings amongst those attempting to understand them. Although many view the institution of slavery as a purely historical phenomenon, slavery remains widespread tod…
In the ghettos of Lithuania an urban infrastructure developed based on the needs of Jewish conscription and forced labor for German occupation forces and the Lithuanian administration. Using the example of the ghettos in Vilnius, Kaunas, and Šiauliai, the author reveals for the …
"Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017."
Across the Kala Pani : the global and local contexts of penal transportation -- "Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy sepoys, and Neas men": The Bengkulu world of the Khan brothers, 1797-1825 -- "Kumpanee ke noukur" : rajas and robbers in Penang, 1790s-1870s -- "Near China beyond the seas …
Criminality at work
From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective organizations…
Prologue -- Part I. Sex trafficking -- Runaways, from the frying pan into the fire -- Happy beginnings, sad endings -- Disposable wives -- Child sex tourism -- Adult sex tourism -- Human trafficker deployment -- Trafficked to La Mara -- Now recruiting for an exciting summer abro…