Labor Trafficking

Abstract

Labor trafficking is a subset of human trafficking, involving the exploitation of a person’s labor by a variety of means whereby the person does not believe he or she is free to leave his or her work. Trafficking usually begins with the transportation, harboring, recruiting, or procuring of a person by means of force, deception or fraud, coercion, confiscation of identity documents, debt, or abuse of power or vulnerability, ending with the person in a form of labor servitude. Labor trafficking is more than the condition of servitude, slavery, or exploitation, as it also includes the process by which a person was placed in that servitude. It is a form of modernday slavery.