From ensuring fair wages for adult labourers to working with village councils on enrolment drives and improving access to education, the campaign aims to make "potential child labourers work only in schools".
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In most places that took indentured labourers, racial animus persists.
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Good jobs even for skilled labourers are hard to find.
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Around 125,000 labourers are thought to have lost their jobs.
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The way migrant labourers are treated needs to change, too.
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The chafed fingers of manual labourers often cause problems, for example.
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But the labourers' lot was better than that of enslaved Africans.
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In the southern slave economy they were day-labourers and sharecroppers.
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Some foreign labourers have been left stranded without pay in desert camps.
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It has spread from partygoers to casual labourers, not always by choice.
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Labourers in Gaddani often work in poor conditions without basic protective gear.
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Other former indentured labourers were also able to buy broke colonists out.
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Last year Baloch separatists killed ten labourers helping to build Gwadar port.
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Nearby labourers pack Vat No.1, a cask-aged spirit, into boxes.
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News about migrant labourers in the Gulf states usually focuses on abuses.
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He said over a dozen labourers were still trapped in the mine.
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Syrian labourers rebuilt Lebanon after its civil war, which ended in 1990.
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But their days as "forced labourers", as Mr Raulff describes it, were numbered.
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Indentured labourers in Trinidad and Guyana (formerly British Guiana) were also granted land.
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THE FIELDS of Worcestershire surrender their goodies to a changing cast of labourers.
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Former forced labourers have failed in individual lawsuits to obtain compensation from Bahlsen.
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Mexican labourers who migrate to the United States can expect to earn 2145% more.
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But the countryside remained polarised between owners of latifundia (large estates) and indentured labourers.
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It crashed to the floor, killing two labourers beneath: perhaps not a great omen.
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Four former labourers initiated a suit in 2005 against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.
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With a state unemployment rate of 22011%, manual labourers can afford to be choosy.
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He is a notable example of how some indentured labourers prospered against the odds.
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Over the oink of pigs, he explains how hard it is to find labourers.
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Manual labourers sprawl on bags full of merchandise, looking at their smartphones or sleeping.
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The two countries disagree on how to compensate forced labourers during World War Two.
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Mr Kim's government also earns more than $1bn a year by forcibly sending labourers abroad.
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It can rely on an army of foreign labourers, toiling in difficult (but improving) conditions.
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But some have started to weave the history of indentured labourers into their national narratives.
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They permitted the brutal abuse of forced labourers in their business and their own home.
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They eke a living as wage labourers in nearby brick kilns or by distilling moonshine.
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Afghan migrant labourers have probably learned the meth business in Iran, then brought it home.
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Some farmers who employ lots of migrant labourers are keen on labour-saving machinery (see article).
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Dalit leaders have also been demanding an end to "dirty" jobs and land for landless labourers.
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There are fewer migrant labourers today who are willing to work for a pittance delivering parcels.
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They include apprentices and people hired for seasonal or project-based work such as construction labourers.
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Complementing the poetry was work by around a dozen artists on the struggles of overseas labourers.
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The mean income among estate workers is a quarter less than that of other rural labourers.
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In India and Latin America women's movements have helped secure gains for rural and domestic labourers.
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Labourers built the entire plant in a record 22 months, a year faster than is typical.
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It describes a near-future where society is almost totally mechanized, without need for human labourers.
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In need of employment, they are taken in on a farm and work as common labourers.
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Or just those who suggest the way the UAE treats its labourers is a bit rum?
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Most of the forced labourers at Hanover-based Bahlsen were women, many from Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
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The former Soviet republic's economy depends heavily on remittances from Kyrgyz migrant labourers working in Russia.
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Russia is also a key source of income for hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz migrant labourers.
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Infrastructure projects are suggested, or schemes to let tens of thousands of day labourers cross into Israel.
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From the late 19th century the British colonial overlords brought Indian labourers to work on sugarcane plantations.
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Strangers in strange lands, indentured labourers and their descendants preserved some traditions, from caste practices to recipes.
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In Rangpur, a northern district, agricultural labourers endure an annual hunger in the autumn, known as monga.
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The dispute worsened last year when South Korean courts ordered Japanese companies to compensate former conscripted labourers.
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Some migrant labourers need their back pay simply to afford the trip home to see their families.
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Trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo over compensation for wartime forced labourers showed scant signs of abating.
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In reality, the factory labourers were not superhumans but slaves, imprisoned or shot if they erred or slowed.
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Out of adoration for Nizamuddin, the labourers worked on the fortress by day and the baoli by night.
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The Yongle emperor, or rather thousands of forced labourers, built it as an expression of Ming-dynasty might.
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Immigration is vital to cover deficits of skilled workers and manual labourers, as well as deliver economic growth.
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Supporters of the policy envisage armies of labourers erecting infrastructure, caring for children and cleaning up the environment.
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Land also gave indentured labourers a start in South Africa, where many were granted plots after their servitude.
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Many labourers who used to be paid by the day are now hired for months at a time.
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In Marx's view capitalism yielded an army of casual labourers who existed from one job to the other.
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Most are built by the householders themselves, or by labourers whom they pay out of their own pockets.
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But few casual labourers are likely to fulfil the still-onerous conditions that must be met to qualify.
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But it was seasoned labourers in obscure cities who struck the first and biggest blows against authoritarian rule.
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In the mid-19th century, Karl Marx complained about capitalists getting too much while labourers get too little.
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Most of the foreign labourers work for the many small suppliers to the local carmaking and shipbuilding industries.
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These days America has a more direct method of raising labourers' wages: it forces farmers to pay them more.
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As your correspondent leaves the courtyard, two labourers with baskets of rubble on their heads turn to go inside.
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Wages paid to pickers have risen by a third or more to encourage voluntary workers to replace forced labourers.
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For the same reason, it has been reluctant to let in Chinese labourers to build Belt-and-Road infrastructure.
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Malays were kept toiling in the fields, whereas ethnic-Indian and -Chinese merchants and labourers were welcomed into cities.
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In Trinidad, however, the mantle was passed to Afro-Trinidadians, who were settled decades before the indentured labourers arrived.
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Investment is constrained by Bremen's vast debts, a legacy of public hiring sprees enacted to help laid-off labourers.
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There are many signs of China's presence, including Chinese labourers building skyscrapers or greetings of "Ni Hao" from children.
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The ratio of craftsmen's wages to labourers' started to fall in the early 1800s, and did not recover until 1960.
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The ruling infuriated Tokyo, which sees the former labourers' right to reparation ceased under a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties.
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That is a stretch for the area's subsistence farmers and labourers, but the school, which has 1,000 pupils, is full.
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Similar schemes exist at the state level as well, making the market of 61,000 captive labourers worth well over $1bn.
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So city-dwelling labourers began to find a home in the Democratic Party, which increasingly took on pro-labour views.
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Almost all workers there are contract labourers who earn a tenth of what those in the formal sector are paid.
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We are all digital labourers, helping make possible the fortunes generated by firms like Google and Facebook, the authors argue.
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The first 21,2000 "hill-country Tamils" came to work in the island's nascent coffee plantations in 20030 as indentured labourers.
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Hundreds of labourers are working to expand the farm, building new barns and installing fans and misters to cool them.
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We have created a pernicious, very British, hukou system; a 21st-century Statute of Labourers that stops workers from relocating.
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In the two decades after 210 western European governments recruited hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers from far-flung places.
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"I have clients in plumbing and in construction who can't find jobs because of competition from foreign labourers," Chloé says.
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Over the following century, as trade unions sought a better deal for labourers, work was a central principle of organisation.
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Brexit may also dent housebuilders' profits, if prices fall or if dwindling European immigration makes it harder to find labourers.
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The ruling infuriated Tokyo, which says the former labourers' right to reparations ceased under a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties.
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Zegveld added that the case could turn into a mass claim, with other migrant labourers likely to come forward with grievances.
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Another large group consists of men in their 40s and 303s, including many former building labourers who may never work again.
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In colonial times many moved as labourers after Britain abolished slavery in 1833, to build the east African railway, for example.
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Although the migrants found only low-paid jobs, as rickshaw drivers, building labourers and the like, their fortunes had greatly improved.
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The latest dispute stems from a South Korean court ruling last year that ordered Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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Founded in 1923 by the labourers of the local locomotive works, they are a regional side with a strong industrial heritage.
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An MP complained about the influx of Syrian labourers over coffee in a café where all the waiters had Egyptian accents.
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The government, sensitive to charges that it overlooks the plight of workers, talks endlessly about making sure migrant labourers get paid.
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Originally known as Chan Kong Sang, his western name Jackie originated from Canberra labourers in the '70s, according to the BBC.
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In 2014, the number climbed to 2,582 deaths, most of them in rural areas where farm labourers work in open fields.
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Large tracts could be farmed more productively, freeing labourers to work in urban factories while also providing food to support them.
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Everyone from labourers, to doctors, and even celebrities are on the guest list—but not just anybody can get in the door.
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The small Asian economy is closely linked to India and depends heavily on it for financial assistance and foreign labourers for infrastructure.
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They must determine how productive workers were (hence the debate about daily spinning rates), and whether they were typical of most labourers.
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South Asia, meanwhile, could afford to lose 134m labourers—India alone could send more than 80m abroad—without worsening its dependency ratio.
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American laws dating back to the 19th century barred ethnic Chinese from gaining American citizenship and Chinese labourers from entering the country.
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In February Amazon received patents for a wristband apparently intended to shepherd labourers in its warehouses through their jobs with maximum efficiency.
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Instead, thieves have begun stealing donkeys in order to take advantage of the surging prices, leaving farmers without their most prized labourers.
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On at least one occasion Japanese companies have settled privately with former forced labourers from China, says Seita Yamamoto, a Japanese lawyer.
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On these projects, and dozens of others in Algeria worth a combined $16bn, some 40,000 Chinese labourers did most of the work.
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While British workers have always been hard to find, labourers from elsewhere in Europe were becoming scarcer, Davidson, Hague and Cunningham agreed.
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Those figures do not include many people on the margins of society who are day labourers and are often unemployed or underemployed.
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The huge, 35 metre-high fortress was originally built by forced labourers in response to allied air raids which began in 1940.
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The dispute over wartime forced labour worsened last year after a South Korean court ordered Japanese firms to compensate former conscripted labourers.
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Women can be Wives to Commanders, "Marthas" (household labourers), "Aunts" (disciplinarians for the regime) or "Handmaids" (surrogates who bear the Commanders' children).
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"Under coronavirus control, migrant labourers are not able to get back to their posts," impacting scrap metal processing in China, he added.
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A generation that had toiled as farmers and labourers watched their grandchildren become some of the most educated people on the planet.
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Thousands of foreign labourers live in wretched conditions in private farms in the Jordan Valley, a fertile vegetable and fruit growing area.
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They would be entitled to welfare payments and pensions as "provision for them that were once labourers and be now weak and impotent".
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The text accompanying a picture of Nepalese construction workers uses stronger language: labourers "in the Gulf region are considered to be contractually enslaved".
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The construction firm took 19 days to build the toilet, and flew in everything — contractors, 10 labourers and materials — from Thailand for it.
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In 21990 Mao Zedong enjoined female labourers to hold up "half the sky"; by the 236s their labour-force participation hovered around 463%.
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In Tijuana the benefits are mutual: once a hub for factories with unskilled labourers, it now boasts many educated workers with sophisticated jobs.
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A report commissioned by the construction industry in 249 warned that within a decade the pool of labourers could shrink by 281-21995%.
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LABOURERS building the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham got a rude shock when they arrived for their morning shift on January 217th.
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When the rains fail, their children and grandchildren join the flow, streaming into Bangalore in search of work as labourers or security guards.
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Already in flight from starvation, persecution or "the mayhem of war" in several west African states, they toiled as migrant labourers under Qaddafi.
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Many of those given plots have had to lease them back cheaply to the big planters, becoming wage labourers on their own land.
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Those who continue farming may have difficulty hiring and managing male labourers and may be harassed and cheated by traders and other farmers.
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The ranch exposed him to Mexican labourers, who did not always have the right papers but who "usually worked harder than we did".
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While survivors of sex trafficking often receive help in shelter homes, rescued bonded labourers simply return to their villages and completely shut down.
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Labourers must still pick around ten kilos—perhaps an hour's work—to earn a dollar, but that is comparable to other menial jobs.
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This "inadvertently" set the stage, the book explains, for the "widespread leasing of convict labourers to plantations, mines and industries in the South".
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Back in his office, the owner of the metal-working factory invites your correspondent to feel how smoothly his labourers have polished a dildo.
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How fortunate that we, unlike equine labourers, have the means to expand our freedoms and choose our response to the growing potential of machines.
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And although south-south migrants tend to have informal jobs, as farm labourers, builders, market traders and so forth, this is no special hardship.
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The indentured labourers' fortunes varied from place to place, according to their numbers, who else lived there, and laws about land tenure and race.
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Ties with India are stronger thanks to an open border, which has fostered trade and allowed millions of Nepalese labourers to find work there.
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TRUST DEFICIT Japan has also pointed to an erosion of trust since South Korean court rulings ordered its firms to compensate wartime forced labourers.
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But they have pointed to an erosion of trust after South Korean court rulings last year ordered Japanese firms to compensate wartime forced labourers.
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Some of the more than 600 farmers and labourers treated for pesticide poisoning over the past few months are still in hospital, he added.
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However, the pay of some narrow categories of workers (say, farm labourers in Britain or high-school dropouts in America) may still be affected.
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Pino said many of his fields had not even been harvested, because crop revenues would not cover the wages of labourers who gathered them.
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Their new plots of land had little grazing space; most were forced to sell their flocks, and now work for Israeli companies as labourers.
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It also reduced the relative return to education by increasing wages for (uneducated) agricultural labourers, thereby discouraging parents from sending their children to school.
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CHENNAI, India, Dec 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - H ousemaids, brick makers, labourers, textile workers, fleeing migrants and children risking their lives in mica mines.
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Ties between the two U.S. allies have worsened since South Korea's Supreme Court last year ordered Japanese companies to compensate some wartime forced labourers.
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The majority of the 590 cases in Qatar are among migrant labourers in the country, where foreigners make up most of the work force.
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The majority of the 590 cases in Qatar are among migrant labourers in the country, where foreigners make up most of the work force.
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It bans North Korean exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood and prohibits countries from hiring additional North Korean labourers.
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"The DPRK also uses forced labour including export of North Korean workers and child labourers to underwrite the regime's illicit weapons programmes," he said.
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He was commissioned in 2002 by Lufthansa to write part of its 75th anniversary, especially in explaining its use of 20123,000 forced labourers in 1944.
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The report argues that the efficiency of pre-manufactured housing will be crucial as the workforce ages and fewer new labourers come into the industry.
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Now the pollution is so severe that rain is not enough, and labourers work almost throughout the year to try to keep the monument clean.
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The government points to 19th-century records drawn up by Britain, the former colonial power, as evidence that the Rohingyas were immigrant labourers, not indigenous.
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More than a quarter of a million bonded labourers have been compensated since the scheme was put in place in 1978, according to government figures.
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"The highway was deserted, except for some trucks and buses carrying labourers out of the valley," added the official, who asked not to be named.
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Combine harvesters reduced the need for agricultural labourers and personal computers eliminated the typing pool, but the displaced workers found other jobs in the end.
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EROSION OF TRUST Japan has also pointed to an erosion of trust since South Korean court rulings ordered its firms to compensate wartime forced labourers.
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Relations between the two U.S. allies worsened late in 2018 as part of a decades-old dispute over compensation for forced labourers during Japan's occupation.
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He said not only had the labourers issue but "repeated negative movements" on the South Korean side had been weighing on relations between the countries.
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The British charity Anti-Slavery International on its website documents 122 products made by child labourers across 58 countries ranging from Latin America to Asia.
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When they lie awake at night worrying about labour unrest, they picture mobs of manual labourers with pickaxes, not swarms of pen-wielding office drones.
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Thousands of children have been freed from the mines and have returned to school, despite persistent challenges in finding alternatives for these former slave labourers.
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The feud is rooted in a decades-old disagreement over compensation for South Korean labourers forced to work at Japanese firms during World War Two.
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In Moscow's case, that would mean stopping using North Korean labourers, tens of thousands of whom work in Russia, and halting fuel supplies to Pyongyang.
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Middle-class Bengali families, throngs of young students, old Afghan men, and Bangladeshi labourers all flock here—a reminder of the city's diverse culinary history.
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Tom Sayers was a nobody, an illiterate builder who lived in a slum with London's other labourers, in cheap houses they had built for themselves.
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The LeidenAsiaCentre report draws on testimonies from North Korean labourers in and outside the EU, field research in Poland and data from governments and other sources.
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In a coalition that took in Alabama's new industrial workers, he vowed to keep convict labourers out of mines, where they were used to break strikes.
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Mr Sacko was campaigning to improve the miserable conditions of thousands of African day-labourers who pick fruit and vegetables in Calabria, the "toe" of Italy.
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While the Democratic Party still garnered a majority of its votes from rural areas in the north, the union between Democrats and urban labourers was born.
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The amount he pays the rental firm is about the same as he used to pay for labourers, but now the work is done much quicker.
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Migrant labourers make up 90 percent of Qatar's population, mostly unskilled and dependent on construction projects such as building stadiums for the 2022 soccer World Cup.
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It also provides a remittance network for tens of millions of migrant labourers, letting them send their incomes from far-flung factories back to their families.
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Kyrgyzstan's economy depends heavily on remittances from migrant labourers, most of whom work in Russia, with which the Bishkek government maintains close economic and political ties.
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The dispute has its roots in a decades-old disagreement over compensation for South Korean labourers forced to work at Japanese firms during World War Two.
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Today the fields enclosed by the Mississippi and the horseshoe of Lake Chicot are punctuated by grain bins, plus a few labourers' dwellings guarded by bored dogs.
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Relations between the northeast Asian neighbours began to deteriorate late last year following a diplomatic row over compensation for wartime forced labourers during Japan's occupation of Korea.
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South Korea called the Japanese action retaliation for a South Korean Supreme Court order for Japanese companies to compensate some of their wartime forced labourers last October.
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The cotton industry in Central Asia depends on migrant labourers; in Turkmenistan tens of thousands of people are forced to pick cotton to fulfil state production quotas.
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Under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme, adopted in 1988, tenant farmers and landless agricultural labourers were entitled to apply to the government for land of their own.
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And in 2000 the German government and companies such as thyssenkrupp that had used forced labourers under the Nazis set up a joint fund to compensate them.
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A senior local government official in Kashmir said the local government advisory had caused panic and led to the departure of "thousands" of tourists, pilgrims and labourers.
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On Saturday, a senior local government official in Kashmir said the advisory had caused panic and led to the departure of "thousands" of tourists, pilgrims and labourers.
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On Saturday, one senior local government official in Kashmir said the advisory had caused panic and led to the departure of "thousands" of tourists, pilgrims and labourers.
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Tokyo is considering taking the dispute with South Korea over its compensation for wartime forced labourers to the International Court of Justice, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.
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A century ago labourers came from Italy; from the 1950s to the 216s migrants turned up from poor drought-prone parts of north-east Brazil, seeking work.
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The film is the story of four labourers from Tamil Nadu who work in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and are arrested for a theft they did not commit.
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Relations between the important U.S. allies have sunk to their worst state in decades after South Korea's top court ordered Japanese firms to compensate wartime forced labourers.
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South Korea's foreign ministry said the fund would receive contributions from Japanese firms sued by former labourers, and South Korean companies that benefited from the 1965 treaty.
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State leaders urged citizens not to rush to villages but tensions mounted as angry labourers protested at some bus stations against sudden closures of basic transport services.
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The International Labour Organization estimates there are about 10 million workers between the ages of 5 and 14 in India and about 150 million child labourers globally.
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The ban movement started when the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation refused to work on projects that were damaging to the environment or historically important buildings.
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In July, Japan tightened controls on exports to South Korea, escalating a row over wartime forced labourers and sparking a boycott of Japanese products by South Korean consumers.
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A recent documentary by Vice News shows footage of North Korean labourers in Polish shipyards and on construction sites, but workers approached by the filmmakers declined to talk.
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They saw the solution to Latin American backwardness in immigration of white European indentured labourers, which initially prevented a rise in rural wages for former slaves and serfs.
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It is an incredible accomplishment; according to Harvard scholar Siddharth Kara, India has the highest number of people living in slavery, with an estimated 11 million bonded labourers.
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The mill has created many jobs, from the labourers who fill bags with pelleted feed to the technicians who run the computer system, and managers like Mr Konaté.
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Japan's Kyodo news agency reported Kono had asked South Korea to take steps to prevent any damage to the Japanese firms ordered to pay compensation to former labourers.
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A second foreign-policy priority is to protect Indonesians abroad, including thousands of women working as domestics and men as manual labourers in Malaysia and the Gulf States.
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Much of the work available is suitable for low-skilled labourers; it takes graduates, such as Mr Yahyaoui, an average of six years to find a steady job.
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Mines, factories, and later grand infrastructure projects such as the trans-Siberian railway were to be manned by productive, hardy labourers, harvesting Siberia's natural riches while rehabilitating themselves.
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Mr Geyrhalter anchors "Earth" (pictured below) in interviews with labourers in the mining trade (something of a departure for a director who has often preferred an observational mode).
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The proposal aimed to resolve an issue that has strained bilateral ties since a series of rulings by South Korean courts ordered Japanese firms to compensate former labourers.
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France, where farmers forecast a shortage of around 200,000 labourers during the harvest period, has also appealed to newly laid-off workers to help pick fruit and vegetables.
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Ethiopia has since 2018 signed bilateral labour agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to regulate the flow of migrant labourers, mainly domestic workers.
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About 800,000 of Qatar's two million migrant labourers work in the construction industry, including at the Education City stadium, a new venue being built for the World Cup.
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But as private markets boom and more people cherish financial stability above political standing, the regime has been struggling to recruit the young labourers in recent years, they say.
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Rocco DiGennaro, who heads the Labourers International Union Local 125 in Youngstown, Ohio, says that many of his members who voted for Mr Trump also voted for Mr Brown.
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While it seems only Thai hands will touch the princess's toilet, the firm relied on Cambodian labourers for several of the other more modest toilets built for her delegation.
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Seoul said those moves by Japan were in retaliation for a South Korean Supreme Court order for Japanese companies to compensate some of their wartime forced labourers last October.
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Nevertheless Marx, like Smith before him, while stressing the necessity of some functions of the state, placed state officials in the category of unproductive labourers outside the production boundary.
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A row over compensation for Korean forced labourers has spilled over into trade between the two U.S. allies in high-tech materials used to make memory chips and screens.
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They are part of a growing army of labourers, businessmen and engineers who can be seen directing the construction of roads, railways and ports across much of east Africa.
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The money was largely spent to rebuild its infrastructure and economy ravaged by the 1950-53 Korean War, but former forced labourers began to demand compensation in the 1990s.
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Since the shutdown began on Wednesday night, homeless shelters have filled with migrant workers and labourers who have lost their livelihoods and so cannot afford food or a bed.
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"Their new plots of land had little grazing space; most were forced to sell their flocks, and now work for Israeli companies as labourers," the Economist wrote in 2016.
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What's more, he'll make sure that pint glass was blown in the West Midlands, and packaged in a good, honest, English warehouse by good, honest English labourers on minimum wage.
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But as Wong Sin Kiong of the National University of Singapore has documented, the boycott took off only after American immigration officers began humiliating educated Chinese as well as labourers.
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Relations between the East Asian neighbours began to deteriorate late last year following a South Korean Supreme Court order for Japanese companies to compensate some of their wartime forced labourers.
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Dark Justice—self-employed labourers who give their names as Scott and Callum—set up their first sting after hearing about budget cuts to the police unit that combats grooming.
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Bonipak, a company based in Santa Maria, bought and renovated an old motel to house farm labourers, spending more than $1m to bring the building up to H-2A standards.
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The official did not give a specific number, but he said most of the 20,000 Hindu pilgrims and Indian tourists and the more than 200,000 labourers were leaving the region.
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Together, they investigated the incidence of chronic kidney disease in agricultural labourers in the lowlands, and compared them with similar workers in a region about 2968,23 feet above sea level.
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Japan initially cited the dispute over compensation for the wartime labourers as being behind what it sees as broken trust with South Korea as it announced the tighter export controls.
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"Traditionally, farm labourers for hire would go from house to house wassailing, like some people do with carol singing," explains Stephen Rowley, one of the organisers of the Stroud Wassail.
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Vested interests in Tashkent rake in the cash from exports of gas, gold and cotton (reaped by a million forced labourers every year), while ordinary Uzbeks struggle to get by.
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QUETTA, Pakistan, May 5 (Reuters) - A coalmine explosion on Saturday killed at least 16 labourers and injured several others in southwest Pakistan, with over a dozen still trapped, officials said.
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Mr Kaine's migration on TPP is based on similarly arcane details: it provides redress for manufacturers over allegedly troublesome trade practices but not for the labourers who produce the goods.
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But Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga repeated that Japan's stance was appropriate, and blamed South Korea for its action on the issue of forced labourers for the strained ties.
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Relations between the two countries have slumped to their lowest in decades after a ruling by South Korea's top court last year ordering Japanese firms to compensate wartime forced labourers.
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It also prohibits countries from increasing the numbers of North Korean labourers currently working abroad, bans new joint ventures with North Korea and any new investment in current joint ventures.
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It also prohibits countries from increasing the current numbers of North Korean labourers working abroad, bans new joint ventures with North Korea and any new investment in current joint ventures.
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Deputy Police Commissioner Basant Garg said the problem appeared to be outstanding pay due to the workers, but added that after three inquiries, police found "no evidence of any bonded labourers".
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Another recent survey, by Amnesty International, suggests that four-fifths of migrant farm labourers are not paid for overtime, despite typically working 50 hours a month longer than their contracts require.
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Chinese labourers toil around the clock on the "Friendship Bridge", which will link the capital, Malé, to the main airport; it is supposed to be ready in time for the election.
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For Mr Hertog, Gulf countries face "a unique development trap" with a mix of expensive but low-skilled national workers, cheap (but not cheap enough) imported labourers, and protected domestic markets.
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The gig economy is assembling a reserve force of atomised labourers who wait to be summoned, via electronic foremen, to deliver people's food, clean their houses or act as their chauffeurs.
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Japan initially cited the dispute over compensation for the wartime labourers as being behind what it sees as broken trust with South Korea when it announced tighter export controls this month.
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Construction firms employ hordes of labourers from the countryside, of whom only a fraction toil under proper contracts, says Susan Finder, an expert on China's legal system based in Hong Kong.
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Similar verdicts in favour of the forced labourers followed suit, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said last week that he respects the decision upholding their individual rights to compensation.
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Because the 140-hectare farm grows so many different things, from rhubarb to strawberries to blueberries to apples, it can offer migrant labourers six to nine months of work a year.
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CARMAKERS WARY Turkey and Egypt also provide experienced, cheap manpower while Riyadh has been reducing the number of foreign labourers to create jobs for Saudis, who prefer higher-paying public jobs.
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Photographing a generation of North African labourers who had migrated for jobs in the French car industry, Alaoui was just as interested, if not more so, in capturing the second generation.
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Scharper's perspective is one that goes back to the first enclosing of communal farming lands by the wealthy to create private property in the 1700s, creating a class of landless labourers.
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The move came in response to Japan's earlier decision to remove South Korea's fast-track export status, further straining relations already stressed by a dispute over compensation for wartime forced labourers.
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Last year, raids carried out by government labour inspectors identified 885 labourers in slave-like conditions, with more than half found in agriculture and cattle ranching, down from 1,509 in 2014.
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The film, punctuated with violence and graphic scenes that show the labourers being interrogated by police, premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and won the Amnesty International Italia Award.
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Millions of bonded labourers work in India in fields, brick kilns and rice mills to pay off loans, and remain isolated from society even after being rescued, anti-slavery campaigners say.
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The streets of Uttar Pradesh's state capital Lucknow were largely deserted on Wednesday, the first day of the shutdown, except for labourers struggling to find transport home, a Reuters eyewitness said.
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A semi-mechanised match manufacturing unit requires approximately 200-250 labourers per machine a day while a fully automatic unit would require not more than 25 people per machine a day.
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Receiving countries would benefit from their labour, while their home countries would benefit from their remittances and eventually from the transfer of skills when the workers return, as many migrant labourers do.
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While respondents would consistently favour unskilled labourers from Europe over those from elsewhere, an individual would theoretically view any skilled professional immigrant, whether from Ireland, India or the Ivory Coast, equally highly.
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The same would also be true of the infinite fragmentation of interest and rank into which the division of social labour splits labourers as well as capitalists and landlords-the latter, e.g.
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The most prominent case Mr Yang is alleged to have interfered in concerns South Korean labourers' claims for compensation for forced labour they performed at Japanese companies during the second world war.
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He was born in the Lower Ninth Ward, the youngest of eight children of Creole labourers, and would have stayed put there if Hurricane Katrina in 2005 had not destroyed his house.
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Even if the BJP's bung to farmers manages to get round the problem that many lack clear land titles, it will do nothing for landless labourers, who are often poorer than smallholders.
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Relations between the two U.S. allies began to deteriorate late last year following a row over compensation for wartime forced labourers during Japan's occupation, but President Moon's comments were the starkest yet.
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A wave of migrant labourers from the Asia-Pacific has dramatically increased the share of Christians in countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which had few before.
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America has a violent history of forcibly union-busting and the road to unionization, particularly for industrial labourers, was paved with the blood of many victims (the human resources of capitalist oligarchies).
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At Delhi's Azadpur Mandi, Asia's largest fruit and vegetable wholesale market, traders said business was at a virtual standstill, and labourers who usually earn between $4 and $6 a day sat idle.
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Relations have plunged after South Korea's top court last year ordered Japanese firms to compensate some wartime forced labourers, and Japan curbed exports of key industrial materials to South Korea in July.
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Dust and sand are the greatest technical challenges to deal with at the solar plant, he said, with a permanent team of about 100 labourers hired to wash the panels each week.
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The kids are from the poorest corners of Bihar, sons and daughters of rickshaw-pullers and daily wage labourers, determined to ace the exam that stands between them and a better future.
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But Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday repeated that Tokyo's stance was appropriate, and blamed South Korea for its actions on the issue of forced labourers for the strained ties.
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"I aim to hold a candid exchange of views on the matter of labourers from the Korean peninsula, which is the core problem, and other bilateral issues," Motegi told reporters in Nagoya.
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From 2000 onwards C&A and Siemens, a German engineering firm, together exploited forced Eastern European labourers in Germany, keeping them in such a wretched state that malnutrition killed several women and children.
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Sketching farm labourers in The Hague, he turned to Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" as a model, believing that the personality of each figure had a corresponding "type" in the novel's panoply of characters.
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It comes amid deep frustration in Japan over what is seen as Seoul's failure to act in response to a South Korean court ruling ordering a Japanese company to compensate former forced labourers.
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The western state of Maharashtra is investigating the deaths of the cotton farmers and labourers as a dry spell led to an outbreak of crop-eating bollworm pests that thrive in such weather.
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The effects on child labourers were often lifelong, she said, as they were exposed to dangerous chemical and heavy machinery while the lack of an education also left them trapped in menial work.
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In moving for repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 (a campaign which this newspaper was founded to support), Sir Robert Peel acknowledged concerns about the harm this might do to agricultural labourers.
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Kiarostami understood that Iran's richest story was not its politics but its people, and he chronicled the lives of Iran's most marginalised—its villagers, labourers, single mothers, elderly, and orphans—with great compassion.
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Bahlsen says it voluntarily paid some 1.5 million deutschmarks (about 750,000 euros) in 2000-2001 to a foundation set up by German firms to compensate 20 million forced labourers used by the Nazis.
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With the mainstay of the local economy hit by the impacts of climate change, many men have left to work as labourers or security guards in distant Indian states, staying away for months.
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The dispute stems from Tokyo's frustration at what it calls a lack of action by Seoul over a South Korean court ruling last October that ordered Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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The powerful Builders Labourers Federation union, casting the site as a symbol of Melbourne's working-class roots, called a strike, barring members from working on the project, and eventually the plan was scrapped.
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But the labourers - many of whom migrate from the countryside with young families and work on day rates without contracts and earn as little as $6 a day - have no choice, campaigners say.
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From time to time, unexpected stories dazzle: Chinese labourers building the Central Pacific Railroad persuaded overseers to let them weave reed baskets in which to suspend men planting explosive charges in the rock.
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The move hit India's growth, driving it to a three-year low of 5.7 percent in the June quarter of 2017, with several small businesses shutting down and many labourers losing their jobs.
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Relations between the two countries have soured since a ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court last year that Japanese companies should compensate South Koreans who were conscripted as forced labourers during World War Two.
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Tandon said the average age of child labourers she spoke to while making the film was 12, but the youngest was a girl of four or five working on a tobacco plant in Indonesia.
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Abdullah Wazirstani, spokesman for North Waziristan Taliban, a group linked to the Pakistani Taliban, said the strike killed three civilian "labourers" and seven militants from the Pakistani Taliban, which is also known as TTP.
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Relations between the two countries have deteriorated since a ruling by South Korea's Supreme Court last year that Japanese companies should compensate South Koreans who were conscripted as forced labourers during World War Two.
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The dispute, triggered after a South Korean court ordered Japanese firms last year to compensate some of their former labourers, has brought their ties to their lowest ebb in more than half a century.
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With its economy having remained closed, the mostly Muslim nation has struggled to create jobs for its quickly growing population, and millions of Uzbeks have become migrant labourers, most of them working in Russia.
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But travel restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus, which has infected more than 245,2663 people globally and killed more than 10,000, threaten to leave millions of South Asian migrant labourers without work.
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Malaysia is home to millions of foreign labourers and one of the top destinations in Asia for impoverished women from countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines who take up jobs as domestic workers.
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"Every night, hundreds of labourers would build the flyover and they would cook and sleep near the site by day," said Ravindra Kumar Gupta, a grocer, who pulled out six bodies, together with his friends.
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Called Share N Care, the fridge was started with the aim of helping the poor and needy in the neighbourhood of Janakpuri in west Delhi, especially the rickshaw drivers and labourers working in the area.
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FNV are suing FIFA together with a migrant worker from Bangladesh, who found himself a victim of the same working conditions which have claimed the lives of dozens of labourers over the past few years.
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Some of the system's teething problems—one hurdle has been that the hands of many manual labourers are so worn that Aadhaar cannot register their fingerprints—show just what an advance the technology could be.
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Japan has said it implemented the export curbs over South Korea's "deficiencies" in its export control systems and not in reaction to the labourers dispute, but South Korea has called the restrictions "unjust economic retaliation".
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Since 4003, according to the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), an activist group, 2400 agricultural labourers have been murdered on Negros, an island where around 22,2000 workers produce about half of the Philippines' sugarcane.
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Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko, in a seven-part tweet late Thursday, reiterated that Japan implemented the export curbs over South Korea's "deficiencies" in its export control systems and not in retaliation in the labourers dispute.
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Moon met leaders of five parties to discuss Japan's recent export restrictions on some high-tech materials used by major South Korean companies, as well as a dispute over Japan's wartime use of forced labourers.
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Japan has denied that the dispute over compensation for labourers is behind the export curbs, even though one of its ministers cited broken trust with South Korea over the labour dispute in announcing the restrictions.
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Worse, the "Ordinance of Labourers" issued by King Edward III has made it a crime to raise wages, so Oswald's workers hate him for his cruelty and his estate managers despise him for his weakness.
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Here is an outline of the issues that still bedevil their ties: Last year, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate some wartime forced labourers.
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He said the strike would go on despite Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's promise on Tuesday that the government would release state employees' bonuses for the last two years, and increase minimum wages for unskilled labourers.
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The turn to the official aesthetic doctrine of Socialist Realism in the 1930s forced Zoshchenko into creative compromises, such as participating in a hagiographic book about the construction of the White Sea Canal by Gulag labourers.
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Here is an outline of the issues that bedevil their ties: FORCED LABOUR Last October, South Korea's Supreme Court ordered Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate some wartime forced labourers.
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With the Californian sun beating down on them, labourers crouch to pluck lemons off low branches and strain to grab them from high ones, carefully placing the fruit in satchels that weigh 255lb (2000kg) when full.
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The step comes amid Tokyo's growing frustration at what it calls a lack of action by Seoul over issues stemming from its top court ruling last October that ordered Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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Japan denies that a dispute over compensation for the treatment of labourers from World War Two is behind the export curbs, although one of its ministers has cited broken trust with South Korea over the dispute.
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Japan has denied that the dispute over compensation for labourers is behind the export curbs, even though a Japanese government minister cited broken trust with South Korea over the labour dispute in announcing the export restrictions.
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"The company is aware of the big suffering and injustice experienced by forced labourers and many more people at the time and recognises its historical and moral responsibility," said the statement, issued following Verena Bahlsen's remarks.
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CHENNAI, India, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S lavery survivors in India are using WhatsApp groups to raise awareness about coronavirus among their peers in villages where many former bonded labourers are unaware of the pandemic.
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Tensions over their history flared up after South Korea's Supreme Court last year ordered two Japanese companies to compensate some wartime labourers, an issue which Japan says was settled under a 1965 treaty that normalised ties.
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Tensions over their history flared up after South Korea's Supreme Court last year ordered two Japanese companies to compensate some wartime labourers, an issue which Japan says was settled under a 1965 treaty that normalised ties.
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A range of economic initiatives have been broached, from the construction of an island off Gaza to handle direct imports by sea to the issuing of more permits for Palestinian labourers or agricultural exports to enter Israel.
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The victims were part of a larger band of labourers who, fed up with endless legal wrangling over the redistribution of land from a plantation called Hacienda Nene, decided one day to start cultivating part of it.
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His interest spread from the working day to the workers' day: what time segregated labourers had to leave the KwaNdebele Bantustan where they were compelled to live and how they got to work in Pretoria, the capital.
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Japan tightened controls in July on exports to South Korea, escalating a row over wartime forced labourers and sparking a boycott by South Korean consumers of Japanese products and services, from cars, beer and pens to tours.
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Japanese firms have got better at dealing with Chinese grievances over Japan's failure to atone for its wartime occupation of parts of China, when firms such as Mitsubishi Materials forced Chinese labourers to toil in Japanese mines.
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With low incomes and few assets, migrant labourers are not obviously attractive loan candidates, and the authorities will need to find property developers willing to sell homes at a discount and local governments ready to subsidize purchases.
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The dispute stems from Japan's frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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One of the factories, O-Film Technology Co Ltd, which has manufactured cameras for Apple Inc's iPhones, received 700 Uighur labourers as part of the program in 2017, a local media article cited by the report said.
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"High-tech mining will mean fewer job opportunities for labourers and no job guarantee for existing employees," said Baij Nath Rai, president of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), which says it represents 100,000 Coal India employees and contractors.
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Until then, most immigrants arrived in the country either illegally or through international-marriage schemes designed to find wives for farm workers and other manual labourers, since South Korean women were shunning harsh lives in the countryside.
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Led by a team of three women, Kuala Lumpur-based Pinkcollar has billed itself as the first ethical recruitment agency in Malaysia, which relies heavily on foreign labourers to fill jobs in construction, factories or domestic care.
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Ties between Japan and South Korea, two of the United States' major Asian allies, have plunged to their lowest in decades after South Korea's top court last year ordered Japanese firms to compensate some wartime forced labourers.
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Mr Clark notes that in the past the skilled-wage premium, defined as the difference in wages between craftsmen, such as carpenters and masons, and unskilled labourers has been fairly stable, save for two sharp declines (see chart).
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Punjab are investigating whether a brick kiln owner held migrant workers and their children in debt bondage, after labourers and activists protested preliminary findings that there were no violations of labour laws.
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Kim Hyun-chong, a deputy national adviser, said the decision to end the intelligence-sharing deal with Japan was inevitable as it had "ignored" Seoul's repeated offers of dialogue to resolve a row over wartime Korean forced labourers.
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In the past, the Japan Times described Korean workers as "forced labourers" and comfort women as those "forced to provide sex for Japanese troops before and during World War II." But the five-sentence note published on Nov.
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The young protesters had hoped that China's support for the allies against Germany—it had sent about 140,000 men to work as labourers on the front in Europe—would result in the return to China of colonised territory.
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As a state legislator he led the charge to raise California's minimum wage to $15 an hour, extended protections for farm labourers, and pushed for California to become a sanctuary state that limits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
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Tokyo has been frustrated by what it calls a lack of action by Seoul over issues stemming from a top South Korean court ruling last October that ordered another Japanese company, Nippon Steel, to compensate former forced labourers.
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The rest of its 2.7 million population are foreign migrant workers, mostly manual labourers employed on vast construction projects that have crowned the tiny desert peninsula with skyscrapers as well as stadiums for the 2022 soccer world cup.
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Lars Osberg and Insa Bechert of Dalhousie University found that the most inequality-averse 10% of Americans resemble the inequality-averse in other countries, favouring an earnings ratio between CEOs and unskilled labourers of about two to one.
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It comes amid deep frustration in Japan over what Tokyo sees as Seoul's failure to act in response to a South Korean court ruling ordering a Japanese company to compensate former forced labourers from the Second World War.
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India announced an ambitious goal last year to rescue more than 18 million bonded labourers by 2030 and to increase fivefold the compensation that is paid to them, as part of a wider drive to tackle modern slavery.
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In its poultry industry, teams of about 10 labourers known as chicken catchers collect the birds that are crammed onto large farms, working up to 20 hours and catching more than 50,000 chickens a day, the report said.
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"This was before my time and we paid the forced labourers exactly as much as German workers and we treated them well," the 25-year-old Bahlsen, one of four children of company owner Werner Bahlsen, told Bild.
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For labourers like him, who earn about 300 pesos ($20173) a day working the plants – and the thousands of farmers who for generations have cultivated poppy across states like Sinaloa, Durango and Guerrero – the heroin boom is over.
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In July, Japan imposed tighter controls on exports of three materials to South Korea used in smartphone chips and displays following a diplomatic dispute over compensation for forced labourers during Japan's occupation of Korea during World War Two.
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BITTER HISTORY The dispute stems from Japan's frustration over what it sees as South Korea's failure to act in response to a ruling by one of its courts last October ordering Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate former forced labourers.
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A group of 289,216 former forced labourers and their families said it had filed a lawsuit demanding the South Korean government provide 100 million won ($88,500) to each of them in compensation because it had received funds from Japan.
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In the three years since the Brexit referendum, with its loud anti-immigrant undertones, German firms have found it easier to hire welders and other skilled labourers from central and eastern Europe who began to feel unwelcome in Britain.
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To try and ease some of the pain from the dearth of skilled labourers, the government also announced the previous week that it was encouraging local and international firms to invest in factories to produce thousands of prefabricated homes.
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Verena Bahlsen, whose father owns the Bahlsen company that makes some of Germany's most famous biscuits, told the mass-selling Bild newspaper that the firm, which employed some 200 forced labourers during World War Two, "did nothing wrong" then.
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