Foundations of Modern Slavery

<p>This is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for capital accumulation and industrialization and colonial and post-colonial economic transformation. The study explores all major episodes of slaveries beginning from the ancient civilizations to the end of Transatlantic Slave Trade in the eighteenth century; the worlds of serfdoms in the context of Western Europe Eastern Europe and Russia; the worlds of feudalisms in the context of Latin America Japan China and India; the worlds of indentured servitudes in the context of the Europeans the Indians and the Chinese; the worlds of guestworkers in the contexts of the United States and Western Europe; the worlds of migrant labor programs in the context of the Gulf States; and the contemporary world of neoslavery focusing on human trafficking in both developing and developed countries and forced labor in global value chains. </p><p>The book is designed not only for students and academia in labor economics labor history and global socio-economic and political transformations but also for the intelligent and inquiring policy makers reformers and general readers across the disciplinary pursuits of Economics Political Science History Sociology Anthropology and Law.</p>