Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking at the University of Nebraska
Date of this Version
10-2010
Abstract
Trafficking in Human Beings:
- Part of the larger system of exploitation of bodies and labour of others for the benefit of capitalist economies driven by consumption
- Reflects the working of the power relations of the neo-liberal capitalist dominance
- Reflects deep philosophical and practical contradictions between sustainability, respect for human rights and capitalism‟s mode of production
- Is a symptom of the larger system of globalised exploitation of gendered and radicalised labour.
- Cannot be eliminated on a symptomatic level
- A long lasting solution: tighter state regulation of labour practices and critical consciousness among members of the general public attuned to local socioeconomic and political contexts
Comments
Presented at Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 2010. Copyright 2010 Kiril Sharapov.