The results will be announced Dec. 5. Proponents say the experimental system will increase turnout, but critics bemoan the loss of community balloting places and say opportunity for fraud and misuse will grow. Demonstrators say the company buys clothes from manufacturers that pay sub par wages and use child labor. They cite a factory in El Salvador that they say is guilty of the practice. The company says it is monitoring the situation and will stop doing business in El Salvador.
Women are often the victims, serving as domestic servants in slave-like conditions.
Old says in times of war there are often outbreaks of slavery, as in Sudan and Bosnia, where prisoners of war are used for forced labor. Alan Cheuse reviews The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies by Pamela Ditchoff. The book is an elegy on the lives and torments of history's greatest human oddities.