A global economy untainted by slavery ? It can happen – and here’s how | Siddharth Kara | Global development

A global economy untainted by slavery? It can happen – and here’s how | Siddharth Kara | Global-development | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/13/global-economy-untainted-slavery-can-happen

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A few years ago, I stepped into an unbearably hot and oppressive shrimp processing facility in Samut Sakhon, just south-west of Bangkok. Scores of workers toiled feverishly to process mountains of shrimp for export to the US and EU. Most had been trafficked to the facility from nearby Burma and Cambodia. They toiled like automatons, processing shrimp around the clock.