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by mschuster91 1271 days ago
Slavery is abolished on paper, but there are more than enough well-known instances where we still have slavery or slavery-like conditions... Italy is estimated to have 50k people in agriculture, mostly in tomato picking, and a further 95k in prostitution and domestic labor [1] as a result of a lot of undocumented immigrants being exploited, Spain's agriculture modern slavery is smaller but still existent [2] and known for at least a decade [3], even Germany has massive issues [4] with estimates going up to 167k people [5].

We may not have overt slavery any more in the Western world, but covert slavery and human trafficking? Absolutely.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy...

[2] https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/26136/strawberry-picker...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/feb/07/spain-salad...

[4] https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/moderne-lohnsklaven-in-...

[5] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/schneller-schlau/mode...