This report focuses on foreign national migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa, north Africa and Asia, employed in low-skilled, often seasonal or temporary jobs, mostly in the agricultural sector. Amnesty International's research found evidence of instances of widespread and/or severe labour exploitation, in violation of Italy's

South Africa - Working conditions. South Africa has 17 million economically active people but a high unemployment rate of 30 percent in 2000. The unemployment problem is mainly related to structural factors, such as the high rate of population growth and the existence of large sectors of the economy that are poorly developed.

Before Covid-19 and lockdown, South Africans employed around a million domestic workers. The pandemic, however, played its part in 250,000 workers losing …

Domestic workers in South Africa face multiple dimensions of social exclusion at present – not resolved by the end of the apartheid system. Kim and Olsen ( …

Commercial farm workers in South Africa endured centuries of exploitation and abuse until the 1990s, when progressive legislation …

While the industry's fourteen mills employ a total of about 5,000 workers, upwards of 74,000 workers render their labour to plant, weed, and harvest the vast expanses of cane – around 430,000 hectares – that stretch across the rolling hills of South Africa's eastern seaboard. Almost none of these workers are unionised.

She has conducted ethnographic research with trafficked persons in South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Cambodia. Her current research projects include a study of justice for victims of seafood slavery and labour exploitation of migrant construction workers, both focusing on Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Data from Statistics South Africa show that domestic workers suffered the worst rates of job losses than any other sector/occupation in the country between the first …

Français. Introduction. Work across Africa: labour exploitation and mobility in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017. …

Human rights for all. South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. Reuters/Mike Hutchings. workers in South Africa are all potential criminals due to the country's regressive laws. But ...

per cent of African women workers (Pillay, 1985: 23). In 1981, nine times as. many women as men were employed in service jobs (Kr aak, 1993: 84). In 1985, African women made up 88 per cent of ...

Instances like South Africa, where the top 10% owns 90% of the entire country's wealth, ... African Union headquarters which they had built and completely funded – a testament to the fact Chinese ambitions in Africa are centered around exploitation, not establishing diplomatic relations. China's rapidly expanding economy requires the ...

This paper surveys the theme of exploitation of laborers in extractive industries, looking specifically at the mining industry in South Africa and how migrant miners there have organized...

None of that is trickling down to us," Paul, one of the workers, told them. As the Post wrote, "While AI is often thought of as human-free machine learning, the technology actually relies on the labor-intensive efforts of a workforce spread across much of the Global South and often subject to exploitation."

Commercial farm workers in South Africa endured centuries of exploitation and abuse until the 1990s, when progressive legislation was promulgated that confers rights to workers aimed at improving ...

For centuries, commercial farm workers in South Africa have endured exploitation and abuse, facing violations of their labour rights that continue to plague the agriculture sector. Despite legal ...

1. Introduction and background: The South African clothing industry has shed over 70 000 jobs in the last decade. Higher labour were arguably put forward as the main cause noting the precarious and sub0 standard working conditions devoid of the decent work frame in other garment, shoe and textile industries globally.

Africa's per capita income as a percentage of the per capita income of the West declined from 55% in 1500, to 22% in 1913 to 6% today. Scale of Poverty: 61% live on < $2 a day. 21% live on between $2 and $4 a day. 14% live on between $4 …

The research, which focused on the construction and domestic sectors in India, China, Mexic, South Korea, South Africa, and the United States, found that many workers suffer from a lack of ...

Introduction. The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only their employers, but the racist policies of the segregationist state of Jan Smuts.

Before 1994, the exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour, workers had to contend with the migrant labour system, job reservation, and other oppressive practices. Nevertheless, trade unions were an important source of resistance.

Children in South Africa are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking, forced begging, and use in illicit activities. (1-3) The 2019 Survey of Activities of Young People found that 5 percent of children are engaged in child labor with the percentage of ...

In South Africa itself, liberal and radical intellectuals denounced an unjust and unsustainable political system. Labour, citizenship, and society were linked in complex …

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has called on the government to intervene after the death of a worker at a Sedibeng-based steel plant this week. The union asked the Department of Employment and Labour to investigate health and safety standards and the alleged exploitation of workers at SA Steel Mills.

West Africa is known for producing one-third of the world's cocoa, mostly in West Africa including Ivory Coast and Ghana. But, most of it is obtained with unfair trade deals and child slavery.

Before 1994, the exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour, workers had to contend with the migrant labour …

Millions of domestic workers experience exploitation in the privacy of their employers' homes; also in South Africa they are to a large extent beyond the reach of legal protection. This book sums up four years of research …

Women are highly concentrated in this sector, with 80% of domestic workers in South Africa being . [2] The benefits afforded through this arrangement include cash payments and accommodation at the job site, which solves a logistical problem of finding accommodation, but can also provide protection from or mediation with …

The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant labour system, passes and influx control, job reservation, poverty wages and oppressive laws.

Conny Buthelezi from the Sisonke National Worker Movement in South Africa, said workers faced abuse, violence and other forms of exploitation, which could be economic and gender-based violence (GBV) in nature. "As of 1957, work was criminalised in terms of the Sexual Offences Act of 1957. Clients have to pay lots of …