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SLAVERY IN COMPANIES

Made by :

  • BIMEKLIOUEN Souad
  • DOUKKALI Ryhab
  • EL HATTAB Rezq
  • KHARMOUDI Meriem

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Outline

  • Introduction
  • Slavery over the years
  • Definition of modern slavery
  • Types of modern slavery
  • Modern slavery in companies
  • Motives behind modern slavery in companies
  • Modern slavery consequences
  • Countries with the highest percentage of modern slavery within companies
  • Morocco’s case
  • Conclusion

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INTRODUCTION

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Slavery over the years

  • Slavery was present in many ancient civilizations such as those of the ancient Egyptians , the Greeks and even the Romans

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Definitions

  • Slavery : is a condition in which individuals are owned by others , who control where they live and at what they work

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  • Chattel slave : is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children’s children are automatically enslaved

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The Atlantic Slave Trade

  • Definition : The Atlantic slave trade was the selling of 10 to 12 millions Africans slaves that happened in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 15th century to the 19th century.

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Plantations

    • Plantations are large farms in the colonies that used the enforced labor to harvest “ cash crops “ such as cotton, rice, indigo, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export

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The Atlantic Slave Trade

Why choosing Africans ?

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  • Not speaking the language
  • No knowledge of the surrounding areas
  • Skin color

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  • White captains , and Europeans came offering manufacture goods like : weapons , Rum to the African kings and merchands for slaves .

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  • Slaves faced unimaginable brutality , after being marched to slave forced on the coast , shaved to prevent lice and branded , they were loaded on to ships to go America

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How to produce the "ideal slave”

  • Maintain strict discipline and unconditional submission.
  • Create a sense of personal inferiority, so that slaves "know their place."
  • Instill fear.
  • Teach servants to take interest in their master's enterprise.
  • Deprive access to education and recreation, to ensure that slaves remain uneducated, helpless, and dependent.

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The end of slavery

  • The United States on December 6, 1865
  • For Morocco , it was only in 1925 that a law explicitly prohibiting slavery
  • Mauritania is the world’s last country to abolish slavery , 2007

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Modern Slavery :

Definition :

According to The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons agency of the United States Department of State it is “The act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion"

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Types of modern slavery

1-Sex slavery

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2-Domestic servitude

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3-Child slavery

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4-Borded labor

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5-Forced labor

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Slavery in companies

  • 40 million people are victims of modern slavery

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  • 25 million of them are victims of forced labor

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  • Forced labor generates 150 million US dollar

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Signs that you are a slave instead of an employee

  • You work at a minimal wage for a big company
  • You are told you can’t do any better
  • You are terrified of your bosses

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WHY DOES SLAVERY PERSISTS ?

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  • Poverty in the areas where slavery occurs

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  • Lack of alternatives

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  • Barriers to the free movement of labor

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  • Population growth
  • International anti-slavery law is not effectively enforced
  • Some countries don't effectively enforce anti-slavery laws
  • Corruption and crime

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MODERN SLAVERY CONSEQUENCES

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  • Child Sex Trafficking : Sex trafficking has devastating consequences for children, including long-lasting physical and psychological trauma, disease (including HIV/AIDS), drug addiction, unwanted pregnancy, malnutrition, social ostracism, and even death.

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  • Slavery in companies : employees work in very bad conditions for long hours and with miserable salaries leading them to catch diseases easily, being on undernutrition all the time and once they can’t fulfill their duty correctly, the company gets rid of them

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MODERN SLAVERY CONSEQUENCES

  • Slave trades : One of the consequences of slave trade is the massive gains of the traders who made fortunes and became extremely wealthy out of this slavery. One of the major slave trade that still exist is in India

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What is Walk Free Foundation? �

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The Global Index provides rankings across three dimensions:

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  • Size of the problem
  • Government response
  • Vulnerability

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Modern Slavery in the World �

Some numbers to remember :

  • five countries alone account for 58% of the individuals affected by slavery, namely India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and finally Uzbekistan.
  • In Tunisia => 0.766% of the population
  • In Algeria => 0.626% of the population
  • In North Korea => 4,373% of the population

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Morocco’s case �

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  • 18th country where there is the most slavery

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  • Out of the 33.848.242 Moroccans ; 219.700 are affected by slavery

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  • 0.639% of the population

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The causes of these disparities

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  1. Population explosion

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  • Globalization of the economy

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  • Change

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CONCLUSION