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NEWS ABOUT: slave labor

slave labor stories: 4 news summaries

 Aussies Sorry for 10K Kids 
 Shipped for 'Slave Labor' 

British children were abused, kept hungry in program lasting until 1960s

Aug 31, 09 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Australian prime minister will apologize to generations of British migrants shipped to Australia as children and subjected to abuse, hunger, and slave labor. Between the 1920s and 1960s the UK sent about 10,000 children to provide Australia with "good white stock," but when they arrived they... More »

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Australia • slave labor • sexual abuse • abuse • orphan • Kevin Rudd

(Newser) - Brazil freed more than 4,600 slaves this year after storming a record number of remote farms, the Guardian reports. Often teaming up with federal police, the government's anti-slavery task force raided 255 farms, but advocates say thousands of poor are still being trapped into debt slavery. "It is... More »

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Brazil • slave labor • slavery • enslavement • Amazon rainforest

OPINION

How the Middle Class Was Systematically Betrayed

Our 'land of equality' is now a 'bankers' utopia'

May 14, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thomas Frank tackles the decline of the American middle class in an outraged op ed piece in today's Wall Street Journal. He confesses fascination with "the mechanics of this huge social reconfiguration," which has, over several decades, shunted the nation's wealth into fewer and fewer hands, until the... More »

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middle class • slave labor • trade • tax cuts • income disparity • deregulation

Child Slavery Scandal Blows Up in China

Kids kidnapped, sent to work in brick kilns rescued in giant crackdown

Jun 16, 07 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A child labor scandal is rocking rural China as information surfaces on kidnapped children forced to work as slaves in the country's brick factories. In crackdowns this week, nearly 50,000 police in two Chinese provinces have rescued 550 people, including dozens of the thousands of children believed to be... More »

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China • kidnapping • children • slave labor • slave • Henan Province • Shanxi Province • child labor • factory

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