Mediating Labour
Subtitle: Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781107647374
Subjects: Labor supply; Employment agencies; Employees, recruiting; Human trafficking; Slavery; Emigration and immigration
Description: "Focuses on labour intermediaries, the persons or agencies who interceded between employers and workers, for which they received payments and commissions. Their practices played a crucial role in the recruitment of both free and forced labour, and frequently blurred the boundaries between the two"--Page 2.