10 Slavery, Chocolate, and Artificial Intelligence
Nellie Munin
Introduction
Although officially slavery ended in the nineteenth century, and international legal agreement currently prohibits it, the world still struggles with the need to solve employment (mainly, but not only, by MNEs) in exploiting conditions, taking place particularly in “Third World” countries, perceived as modern slavery.
MNEs and other employers, accused of such exploitations, argue that had they not employed them, these employees would have no way to earn their living at all, and that what seems as exploiting employment terms in a Western context is reasonable in local terms. MNEs invest in campaigns aiming at depicting ...
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