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From Slavery to Debt-Bondage: Big Tobacco's Addiction to Cheap Labor
McGill, Abby
http://www.laborrights.org/blog/201505/slavery-debt-bondage-big-tobacco%E2%80%99s-addiction-cheap-laborDate Written: 2015-05-12 Publisher: ILRF International Labor Rights Forum Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX17668 Cigarette manufacturers and leaf buyers perpetuate a global system of inequity that bolsters corporate profits at the expense of those who labor at the bottom of the tobacco supply chain. It is long past time for that system to end, and be replaced by a more fair tobacco trade that respects the workers who harvest this toxic crop. Subject Headings |