Forced Labor in America: Some Foreign Household Workers Face.... / Stephanie Armour.
by Armour, Stephanie; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 60Business. Publisher: Gannett News Service (Syndicate), 2001ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Alien labor | Domestics | Forced labor | Immigrants -- Crimes against | Slavery | Women slavesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Many immigrants hired to work as nannies and maids in private residences in the United States are instead being forced into virtual bondage, where some are beaten, barred from leaving and denied basic medical care....In an investigation of this hidden form of exploitation, USA TODAY compiled information on more than 140 cases of domestic worker abuse to examine for the first time what kind of abuses are occurring and what common themes can be drawn from victim's stories." (USA TODAY) This article examines the abuses of foreign workers in private homes.
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Originally Published: Forced Labor in America: Some Foreign Household Workers Face..., Nov. 19, 2001; pp. 1A+.
"Many immigrants hired to work as nannies and maids in private residences in the United States are instead being forced into virtual bondage, where some are beaten, barred from leaving and denied basic medical care....In an investigation of this hidden form of exploitation, USA TODAY compiled information on more than 140 cases of domestic worker abuse to examine for the first time what kind of abuses are occurring and what common themes can be drawn from victim's stories." (USA TODAY) This article examines the abuses of foreign workers in private homes.
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