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Fields of Terror-The New Slave Trade in the Heart of Europe
People from poor countries are becoming modern day slaves as they are lured in on false pretenses and then being held captive. They were promised “good salaries, accommodations, and food”, but instead were beaten and threatened if they asked for these items. These people were becoming slaves and provided many local restaurants with fresh foods from the surrounding fields. Even though this was all happening, many people were continuing to get away with having these modern day slaves and no one was stopping them.
Tags: Czech Republic; Eastern Europe; illegal immigrants; gangsters; criminals; labor; force; manual labor; work
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The Email Trial
After requesting records from the Harris County Sheriff's Office to investigate possible corruption of the local County Commissioner, over 750,000 emails were deleted.
Tags: e-mail; slave labor; surveillance; ranch house; text message; shredding;
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
"The book uncovers three labor environments where modern-day enslavement or near-enslavement of immigrants has taken place on American soil." Bowe looks at outsourcing, unpaid and illegal immigrant workers, and other loopholes in the American business system.
Tags: immigrant; immigration; outsourcing; India; Kuwait; Saipan; Florida; Oklahoma; employee; employer; PepsiCo; Tropicana; John Pickle Company; clothing; factory; Gap; Target;
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Slaves in Amazon Forced to Make Material Used in Cars
In Brazil, Peru and Bolivia hundreds of thousands of unemployed men and women are being recruited for slavery. The workers for the slave-camps make charcoal, while being forced to live without housing, electricity or plumbing, and without pay.
Tags: slave labor; Amazon; South America; labor camps; malaria; tuberculosis; Whirlpool; Nucor; Latin America; Ford; General Motors; Nissan; Toyota; car companies
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Modern Day Slavery
This series of investigations revealed that in the last four years, officials have prosecuted five cases of slavery in Southwest Florida and that an estimated 20 to 50 thousand people a year are smuggled into the U.S. as indentured servants. These "slaves" are abused or mistreated and many women are forced into prostitution. Some women are tricked into coming into America under the illusion that they are being recruited as models.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; slavery; migrant farm; indentured servants; human traffickers; U.S. Attorney's office; Cuba; Brazil; labor
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Sheriffs' Exposes
This investigation of two sheriffs in Georgia who used inmates housed in their jails for their own personal and private gain, essentially making slave laborers out of county prisoners, shocked many. Under Georgia law, it is a felony-violation of oath of office-punishable by up to five years in prison each time a sheriff uses inmate labor for personal gain. As a result to this investigation, one sheriff resigned after FBI opened investigations on him.
Tags: sheriffs; inmates; abuse; Georgia; jail; prison; county; slave laborer; prisoner
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Slaves to fashion?
From the contest entry summary: "Slaves to Fashion?" is the product of a yearlong investigation into illegal child labor in India's silk industry and its multi-million dollar connection to American retailers." Using hidden cameras, the reporters find that India's silk industry is violent and highly secretive; American companies cannot take at face value Indian manufacturers' claims -- often in writ -- that no child labor has been used in silk production; and many fashion designers are unaware that silk products labeled "Made in Italy" often come from India.
Tags: sweatshops; export; international trade; business; labor; undercover investigations; health; safety; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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A Taste of Slavery
An investigation by the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau reveals that boys enslaved on Ivory Coast farms harvest cocoa use to make chocolate that Americans consume.
Tags: cocoa; slaves; Ivory Coast; chocolate; slavery; labor; foreign affairs; international reporting; business; children
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Invisible Lives: D.C.'s Troubled System for the Retarded; Invisible Deaths: The Fatal Neglect of D.C.'s Retarded
The Washington Post reprints Katherine Boo's 1999 series about the plight of the mentally retarded in Washington D.C. The stories uncovered group homes designated for the mentally disabled found to be in bad condition, abuse and neglect of the mentally retarded on the part of their caretakers and even instances of the mentally retarded being used as slave-wage labor. Boo's series also discovered a history of uncounted deaths of the retarded and the large cover-up The reprint also includes several follow-up stories done by Boo and the Post staff.
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Lost Children
CBS News reports "The story begins in Britain directly after World War II. Battered and poor, Britain embarked on a scheme to clear out its overflowing children's homes. By the thousands, children as young as three were ... shipped halfway across the world to Australia to start a 'new life' with new families. All of these children were told their parents were dead... The children, none older than 15, arrived with no birth certificates, no passports and no families waiting to take them in. Many were condemned to childhoods of virtual slave labor in institutions run by religious orders. Some of the boys were sexually abused.... They weren't orphans at all. Most had families back in Britain who never know what had become of their children and had been lied to by authorities..."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT abduction child migrants 1947 Bindoon child labor