Course Description

Tu., Th., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged.  Exam Group: 13.

This course surveys the nature, types and extent of modern servitude, distinguishing broadly between those resulting from international trafficking such as trans-national prostitution, human smuggling into bonded labor, child soldiering and organ trafficking, and more intra-national forms such as debt-bondage and the domestic exploitation of women and other vulnerable groups. Examines the conceptual and theoretical issues raised in attempts to distinguish among these types of differential power relations; the empirical difficulties of estimating the magnitude of what are inherently secretive processes; and the ideological controversies surrounding the subject. Explores ethical, socio- political and practical issues raised by these trends.

Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Social Analysis.

Class: 

Societies of the World 44: Human Trafficking, Slavery, and Abolition in the Modern World