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Report of a research project, Analysing the Effectiveness of Programmes for the Eradication of Bonded Labour System initiated by the Centre for Education and Communication and Anti Slavery International; covers the states of Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Karnataka, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh

This article challenges the tendency to conceptualize contemporary debt bondage as an individualized relationship between employer and victim. It highlights the systemic relations of inequality that underpin debt bondage in advanced capitalist countries, focusing on temporary migrant workers in the United States. It advances two interlocking arguments. First, that debt bondage in the US market is rooted in processes of 'neoliberalization' that have left dispossessed populations few alternatives but to sell themselves into coercive labor markets. Second, that debt operates as a class-based form of power that disciplines all sectors of the labor market, albeit in variegated forms and degrees. Far from an archaic or non-capitalist social relation, debt bondage must be understood as a profitable strategy of labor discipline anchored in state regulatory frameworks that have bolstered the power of employers and facilitated predatory and privatized forms of credit and lending as solutions to poverty and unemployment.

Despite recent multilateral efforts to single out child labor in debt bondage as one of the worst forms of child labor, several important questions have yet to be addressed: How pervasive is the phenomenon? Are there systematic correlations between the incidence of children in debt bondage and the economic, legislative, and financial development indicators of the economy? How does an understanding of these correlates affect the way national and international policy measures aimed at targeting this form of child labor are perceived? This article addresses each of these questions. The empirical findings suggest strong correlation between the likelihood of the incidence of child labor in debt bondage with the stage of development of an economy, the stage of financial development, and enforcement of core labor rights. Building on this evidence, the article presents a theoretical model that highlights the drawbacks and merits of a number of policies aimed at putting checks on child labor in debt bondage.

The purpose of the study is to investigate the causes of distressed migration in western Odisha, India, as well as how the economic system is affected by debt bondage. It studies the causes of the seasonal migration of debt bondage utilising the survey. The data are analysed using a binary choice model, and the results suggest that seasonal migrants are more likely to come from impoverished, socially disadvantaged, less educated, indebted and landless households. It suggests the identification of forward and backward linkages between diverse economic activity as well as the creation of job opportunities while deciding on public policy for this region.

The 1994-1996 financial crisis in Mexico was perceived by the international press as a consequence of global market positioning, but internally, Mexicans blamed the political elites for exposing the country's financial system to debt in their quest for personal wealth & party power. Public backlash against officials has been sophisticated, as illustrated by the case of the Barzon debtors movement. This movement, numbering half a million in 1995, launched protests at banks, public places, & Congress, filed numerous lawsuits, & introduced antibank legislation to protest the corrupt collusion of banks, government officials, & judges in the 1995-1996 bank failure. The movement unified those trying to protect themselves against lender repossession of their property & provided an outlet to protest President Ernesto Zedillo's economic policy, but it gradually ebbed due to ideology & class contradictions & bank power on the outside. 1 Table, 20 References. M. Plfum