Modern slavery and bonded labour in South Asia : a human rights-based approach /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge research on Asian development ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Slavery and bonded labour: a problem of definition
- Definitions of slavery
- Slavery and servitude
- Slavery and forced labour
- Legal abolition of slavery
- Bonded labour as a form of slavery
- Bonded labour and capitalism
- Is bonded labour voluntary?
- 2. brief history of slavery and debt bondage in India and Nepal
- Slavery and bonded labour in India and Nepal
- Caste and ethnic aspects of bonded labour
- Conclusions: caste, ethnicity, and bonded labour
- 3. Bonded labour: a question of power and accountability
- Bonded labour among Sahariya and Tharu ethnic groups
- Root causes of bonded labour
- Bonded labour as a situation of social disempowerment
- 4. Human rights and liberation
- Nature of human rights
- Human rights and development: concepts and linkages
- Human rights-based approach: the problems of definition
- main components of the rights-based approach
- rights-based approach and social change for justice
- problem of implementation of the rights-based approach
- Human rights-based approach to bonded labour: added value?
- 5. Human rights-based approaches to bonded labour: the cases of the Sahariya and Kamaiya peoples
- rights-based approach and the system of Kamaiya bonded labour
- Sahariya tribe and struggles for freedom
- Bonded labourers and the concept of human rights
- Problems of the implementation of the human rights-based approach
- Rights-based approaches to bonded labour: differences and similarities
- 6. Human rights and freedom: are they what we fought for?
- Evidence from the field
- Power relations and human rights-based interventions
- Limitations of human rights-based approaches
- Conclusions
- Bonded labour as a situation of powerlessness
- Rights as catalysts for reconceptualisation of power
- Limitations of human rights-based approaches.