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In response to the below criticism I have deleted much of this article and moved most of the rest. This page should now be used as a child article for Slavery, pertaining only to its contemporary aspects. K. the Surveyor (talk) 18:33, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Really? This sounds like this was written by an 8th grader. Delete. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.226.138 (talk) 02:55, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
this is a bleedin' awful article.
-- yes, copy and pasted, probarbly from US government documents. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Opmcclellan (talk • contribs) 21:34, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
ok, copy and pasting can be forgivin but not even adding a personal opinion and some self found facts is a bit dim, and also there should be links to the main website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bookfinder612 (talk • contribs) 19:49, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
It reads like someones high school paper. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.251.185.100 (talk) 16:32, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
terrible, just terible —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.97.243.208 (talk) 01:47, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
delete the entire thing; better to have no article at all than to have this garbage mucking up wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.36.13 (talk) 20:21, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm really sorry, OP but this article is incomplete and is mostly just socialist talking points. 24.227.222.9 (talk) 05:38, 11 February 2014 (UTC)gangreneday
This could certainly use some work but it is not "just socialist talking points." Bryan Caplan is no socialist! And even Republicans are coming around and discussing the issue, e.g. Noem in South Dakota. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexanderHamiltonRulz (talk • contribs) 01:52, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
The section on Wage Labor attempts to redefine the term "slavery" from a non-neutral Marxist perspective to include free workers under capitalist systems. The sections within this article should all work from the common definition of slavery as given on the Wikipedia Slavery main article.
"The females are forced into lives whose main purpose is to serve their husbands. This oftentimes fosters an environment for physical, verbal and sexual abuse" ---------How is this different from regular marriage? This is obviously political spin.---------- Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:300A:D09:F500:543C:7294:83B:61F0 (talk) 18:53, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
I feel this article doesn't acknowledge the extent of contemporary slavery in the Arabian peninsula and nearby (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Djibouti). These are historic centers of slavery and at least until the 1960s witnesses report slave auctions. There is no doubt that there is still widespread slavery there today. 144.131.209.126 (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
185.73.37.82, would you care to explain your removal of sourced material in greater detail? I'm not sure why exactly you did it. Dschslava Δx parlez moi 19:45, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
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CrissieLuckey (talk) 15:27, 4 August 2018 (UTC)== Article title ==
The term "modern slavery" is much more prevalent than "contemporary slavery" - I would suggest the article title should be changed to "Modern slavery" - BobKilcoyne (talk) 04:19, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
I agree that the title should be changed to a more common phrase that will indicate article contents address various forms of slavery in today's societies. I'd suggest "Neo-Slavery" with "Contemporary" and "Modern" prefixes listed on a discombobulation page.CrissieLuckey (talk) 15:27, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
Not moved. There is no clear consensus to move the article at this time. Although there are well-reasoned arguments on both sides, a well-articulated concern is expressed that "Modern" may be ambiguous to the rather large collection of time periods that are considered "Modern" for various purposes. This also weakens the "common name" argument. I note in particular that is possible to find sources referencing "modern slavery" that were published in the 19th century. See, e.g., William Brodie, Modern Slavery, and the Slave Trade, a Lecture, Vol. 5 (1850), p. 1: "Modern slavery may be dated from the year when the famous proposal of La Casas was accepted by the Emperor Charles"; Sir Arthur Helps, "Improvement of the condition of the rural poor", Friends In Council, Book 2 (1849), p. 262: "If modern slavery were anything like Jewish slavery, there would have been, comparatively speaking, but little need of abolitionists to moot the subject". bd2412 T 15:58, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Contemporary slavery → Modern slavery – Modern slavery is a more common phrase, I proposed the idea on 20 June, no discussion has arisen BobKilcoyne (talk) 18:44, 11 July 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Anarchyte (work | talk) 08:00, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) The Duke of NonsenseWhat is necessary for thee? 12:36, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Contemporary slavery → Slavery in the 21st century – More precise than "Contemporary" or "Modern". More defined than "modern-day". It is a title used by other Encyclopedias such as Britannica. Some useful arguments were presented in the RM above and this proposal is based on that. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 16:55, 2 August 2018 (UTC)Capitalisation corrected. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 18:17, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
I think having an extended section on socialist "wage slavery" theories is inappropriate for this article. The theory of wage slavery already has its own page, and this article is supposed to be about humans living in actual bondage- not socialist theories about how a poor worker might live a life akin to bondage. The section itself even acknowledges in the last paragraph that they aren't the same thing! This section is also very poorly sourced and uses very politicized language in some instances. For all these reasons I think it is inappropriate for the article. An offhand mention, for example "Some socialist philosophers have critiqued wage labor as akin to slavery, calling it wage slavery", would be sufficient. It keeps the focus of the article on the modern practice of involuntary bondage, while allowing interested readers to click the link if they want to learn more. That would be a good way to both acknowledge the theory while keeping the article focused.Jogarz1921 (talk) 03:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Including military conscription in the description of government-forced labor seems inappropriate. While some people think conscription is immoral (I, for example, burned my draft card during the U.S. War Against Vietnam), but it is a very different type of forced labor than working on a farm or a mine.Michael E Nolan (talk) 21:39, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
They have been trafficked many times.
See https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-shipbuilder-in-dock-over-north-koreans-polish-slave-claims/a-47502242
Let us add Poland here. Zezen (talk) 22:35, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Judging by the map, seems Greece has a much worse problem of slavery than Turkey or China for example. I couldn't find the data that produced this map, but to me it seems highly inaccurate, or it's depicting something else, not modern slavery. Infestdead (talk) 22:37, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
I concur that this map seems highly inaccurate and should be removed untill an actuate source can be found. Scphyle (talk) 05:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Towards the end of this article, the penal slavery (prison labor) section discusses slavery in the United States, China, North Korea, the United Kingdom, and Australia. However, the geographical infographic at the top of the page claims that the US, Australia, and the UK are mostly uninvolved in slavery. However, the US has the highest prison population in the world, with approximately 0.7% of the population incarcerated according to prisonpolicy.org. That would, according to this graph, color the USA a reddish orange. There should be a different graph that differentiates legal slavery from illegal slavery, that would make this article more clear. TLDR: using just the Walk Free Foundation graph would be misleading because it only seems to account for not all types of forced labor. Houglar (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
There is a photo of a little girl on India. It's showed as "own work". Adds nothing to the article and does not appear to be consensual. Should be deleted. Halvenvideo (talk) 16:35, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
There may have been some reasons for this edit, back in 2016 (for one, the title of the section was likely inappropriate), but I feel it should have been discussed first. The information was relevant and apparently accurate. One could have considered moving it to other articles and leaving a shorter section in this one. --Pegasovagante (talk) 05:45, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
The map from the Walk Free foundation shown as the first image in the article is either out of date or falsified and having searched for the 2019 map I can find no source other than this article. Here is a link with an up to date map https://downloads.walkfree.org/gsi2023/data-maps.pdf
The '2019 map' should be removed as it is radically different from the current picture, especially in regards to several countries in the Arabian peninsula. RJS87 (talk) 11:38, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
The lede says "contemporary slavery" refers specifically to institutional slavery, but the article then goes on to talk about non-institutional slavery. Eldomtom2 (talk) 19:16, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
The image titled "the slave market" by Gerome should be deleted since it is irrelevant in an article about slavery in 21st century 2A02:E0:C917:600:1000:F31D:3D87:CBA1 (talk) 05:08, 10 May 2024 (UTC)