MODERN SLAVE WORK

AleJandro Calvillo Unna and Álvaro de Regil Castilla

This TLWNSI Issue Commentary clearly exhibits the absolute impossibility of sustaining the current North-South system of exploitation, of quasi-slavery in which the South's role is, essentially, to supply labour at a cost that perpetuates it in servitude and to surrender its natural resources to the global corporations of the institutional investors. It also shows us how, despite the official rhetoric that states that the decent work concept has led to the international consensus that productive employment and decent work are key elements to achieving poverty reduction, everything remains the same.