Answer to Question #107733 in Economics for Nana Akua Agyeiwaa Owusu

Question

1. What are two ways in which modern-day workers might become slaves? Who do you hold ethically accountable for their indentured servitude?
2. How might an employer seek to determine whether the individuals hired through agencies are in indentured servitude?
3. Once someone becomes an indentured worker, why might he or she stay?

Answer 1

1. Modern forms of slavery can include debt bondage, where a person is forced to work for free to pay off a debt, child slavery, forced marriage, domestic servitude and forced labour, where victims are made to work through violence and intimidation.

2. An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work without pay for the owner of the indenture for a period of time. In many countries, systems of indentured labor have now been outlawed, and are banned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a form of slavery.

3. Once someone becomes an indentured worker, he or she might stay because of fear, illegal work or illegal stay in the country.