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The Ignored Exploitation: Labor Trafficking in the United States

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Labor trafficking impacts a greater proportion of workers around the globe than sex trafficking and yet is often overlooked in anti-trafficking efforts. This chapter examines labor trafficking in the United States, its historic roots, legislation and policies, health impacts, case studies, and promising practices. It discusses current limitations in the approach to human trafficking and the inadequacies of current remedies, and argues for an expanded role for health care providers in identifying and assisting trafficked persons and survivors of this human rights violation.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47824-1_25

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  • 05 May 2017

    In Chapter 5 titled “The Ignored Exploitation: Labor Trafficking in the United States” the affiliation of the author Susie Baldwin has been updated to read as “HEAL Trafficking, P.O. Box 31602, 3001 North Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031, USA, e-mail: SBaldwin@healtrafficking.org”.

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    The term “unauthorized” reflects the characterizations used in the referenced study and does not reflect the opinions of the chapter authors or book editors.

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    Sharecropping involved landowners renting a plot of land to laborers in exchange for a share of the crops. The landlords often also rented or sold equipment and supplies to the worker on credit, prevented the worker from selling to others, and took an unpredictable and disproportionately large share of the crops, effectively trapping the worker through debt. Peonage involved poor whites and blacks being arrested for often minor or imagined violations, and then being forced to work for a local businessman to pay off the fines and court fees. In convict leasing, businesses could “lease” convicts from states and counties in exchange for feeding and housing them. Leased convicts were forced to work long hours and conditions were often deplorable. (Wagner, Nancy O’Briem. Slavery by Another Name: History Background . Bluestem Heritage Group. Twin Cities Public Television 2012. PBS.)

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