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Artículo de periódico

An Alliance Against Forced Labour in India? Unfree Labour, Neo-liberal-Globalization and the International Labour Organization

Fecha

2007

Autores

Jens Lerche

Resumen

The ILO is presently attempting to spearhead a ‘global alliance against forced labour’. This article surveys the ILO approach to forced labour, recent theoretical debates regarding forced labour and recent empirical work on bonded labour in India. It argues that the ILO ‘ghettoizes’ forced labour, and that existing theories do not provide an alternative to this, as they focus on high-level ahistorical models. There is a need to develop specific analyses of the processes underlying both free and unfree labour relations in the present context, and their relation to neo-liberal globalization as well as country-specific conditions. The review of Indian case studies and of aspects of neo-liberal globalization points towards such an analytical approach.

Journal title

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumen

7

Número

4

Page numbers

425-452

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Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Agriculture and horticulture workers y Otro

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas

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Relevancia geográfica

International Organizations y India

Esferas de la actividad

Economía, Periodismo, medios de comunicación y los estudios, y Ciencias Políticas

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