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Wages/Compensation/Benefits: Forced Labor

Catalog Subject Headings

In the catalog, use the following subject headings:

Child trafficking

Convict labor

Forced labor

Human smuggling

Human trafficking

Indentured servants

Peonage

Slave labor

Slavery

Reports and Publications

1. A global alliance against forced labour: global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 2005. Geneva : International Labour Office, 2005. 87 p. (ISBN: 9221153606) Report (International Labour Conference) ; 93rd session, 1 (B)

 2. Data and research on human trafficking : a global survey, edited by Frank Laczko and Elzbieta Gozdziak ; International Organization for Migration. Published/Created: Geneva : International Organization for Migration, c2005. 342 p. Notes: Offprint of the special issue of International Migration, v. 43 no. 1/2, 2005 (Geneva, International Organization for Migration). [Princeton only]

3. Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the United States 2013-2017. Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, 2014.

4. Forced labor: coercion and exploitation in the private economy, edited by Beate Andrees, Patrick Belser. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. 229 p. (ISBN:9781588266644) (ILO Third Global Report)

5. Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour. International Labour Office, 2014. 57 p.

Provides figures showing that the US$ 150 billion in profits from commercial sexual exploitation and forced economic exploitation, including domestic work, agriculture and other economic activities, is three times the amount previously estimated.

6. Stopping forced labour: global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work. International Labour Conference, 89th session 2001, Report I(B). Geneva: International Labour Office. 128 p. (ISBN: 9221119483)

7. Trafficking in Persons Report.  U.S. Department of State, 2001+

Organizations

1. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) - pages include links to fact sheets, reports, additional    publications, data, and frequently asked questions.

International Child Labor and Forced Labor Reports .

Reports: Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor.

"List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor," a list of goods and their source countries which ILAB has reason to believe are produced by child labor or forced labor in violation of international standards.

2. European Commission - Trafficking in Human Beings, Together Against Trafficking in Human Beings

3. European Union - Human Trafficking

4. Free2Work.org

Project created by the Not For Sale social impact organization, supported by the International Labor Rights Forum, a human rights organization. Provides forced and child labor ratings and reports for supply chains of popular brands and products within various industries.

5. International Labour Organization - Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Slavery

Features links to labour standards, reports, documents, ILO Conventions on forced Labour, and other relevant resources.

6. International Organization for Migration - Counter-Trafficking

7. National Human Trafficking Resource Center - U.S. anti-trafficking hotline and information resource funded by private donors and the Department of Health and Human Services. Includes hotline statistics, fact sheets, reports, and links to organizations engaged in anti-trafficking efforts at the federal level.

8. University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library - Employment and Forced Labour

9. U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs - Forced Labor; Human Trafficking

10. U.S. Dept. of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons