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What is State-Imposed Forced Labor

Handbook of Research on Unemployment and Labor Market Sustainability in the Era of Globalization
When states exploit individuals’ bodies for their own gain, it’s named as state-imposed forced labor. According to the ILO researches, of the total number of victims of forced labor, 2.2 million are in this form of forced labor – for example in prisons, or in work imposed by the state military or by rebel armed forces includes child soldiers which is one of the worst forms of child labor.
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The Role of International Labour Organization in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
Halise Duygu Özalp (University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2008-5.ch003
Abstract
Since the date it was founded to the present day, International Labour Organization (ILO) has been working on developing policy proposals about the problematic areas emerging in working life. Though unemployment is regarded across the world as the source of major problematic areas of economies, the thought of the need for taking the new ‘invisible' work types into the spotlight also as problematic areas is considered significant. This chapter acknowledges this need and is about the fight against modern slavery; in this context, the chapter takes the assessments and reports of ILO on forced labor. Thus, the purpose is to put forth the necessity and importance of fighting against the modern forms of slave labor, expanding on the efforts of the Organization which can cause significant pressure on the government/state level.
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