"Two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, at least 12.3 million people are subjected to modem forms of forced labor - in rich countries, as well as poor ones. The authors of Forced Labor present state-of-the-art research on the manifestations of these slavery-like...

This paper is a review of the literature on slavery, forced labor and human trafficking, which all involve the use of coercion in the production of goods and services. Applying economic theory and numbers to subjects such as slavery, forced labor and human trafficking can be sensitive, and has...