There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

Am umfassendsten hat wohl Kevin Bales in "Die neue Sklaverei" (BA 7/01) und populärer, schon Schülern zugänglich, in "Moderne Sklaverei" (BA 11/08) die Machenschaften der modernen Sklavenhändler und die Strukturen des Menschenhandels unserer Zeit untersucht und dokumentiert. D. Batstone,...

Child labour is a widespread phenomenon. Although economic activities of children have been commonplace even before the industrialisation, it has in the meanwhile become a lasting symbol of the industrial revolution and of industrialisation in general. In most countries the inclusion of children...