Africa: Worked Like Slaves? Many Forced Labour Victims 'Underworked' in Debt Bondage Trap

London — Some people trapped in modern slavery are given little to no work for weeks on end, becoming "coerced customers"

Victims of forced labour are not always "worked like slaves" but underworked as slavemasters often take on more workers than they need and profit by charging them for accommodation and food in a cycle of spiralling debt and abuse, British researchers said.

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