Employment is freely chosen

ETI Resources

This is an outline page for this new section of the ETI website, which will be developed on an ongoing basis to provide a list of key resources on this topic. Suggestions for material to include on this page are welcome!

• Key international conventions
• ETI documents
• Other online resources
• For more information

 

 

Key international conventions

C29 – Forced Labour Convention, 1930

This Convention requires the suppression of forced or compulsory labour in all its forms. Forced labour is ‘all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.’ The ILO Committee of Experts has held that this definition is sufficiently wide to cover debt-bondage.
For the purposes of this Convention, the term ‘forced labour’ does not include obligations such as military service or other normal civic obligations. Also excluded is work exacted as a consequence of a criminal conviction.
Also relevant to this Convention: R35 – Forced Labour (Indirect Compulsion) Recommendation, 1930.

C105 – Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957

This Convention prohibits the use of any form of forced or compulsory labour – including work following a criminal conviction - as a means of:

• political coercion or education, or punishment for the expression of political or ideological views,
• workforce mobilisation for purposes of economic development,
• labour discipline,
• punishment for participation in strikes, or
• racial, social, national or religious discrimination.

 

 

ETI documents

ETI Events: Roundtables: Prison Labour (2004)

ETI Library:

• ETI AGM 2002, Workshop 1 - Prison Labour

 

 

Other online resources

Free the Slaves
A U.S. non-profit organization working to end slavery worldwide
www.freetheslaves.net

Anti-Slavery International
www.antislavery.org
(has a search engine for finding info sources on forced labour)

 

 

For more information

We welcome suggestions for highly relevant links and print material to list here, bearing in mind that it is intended to be a very selective resource. Please include:

1. full URL (address for internet links) and/or bibliographic details and how to obtain a copy (print materials), and
2. a clear indication of where you think the listing would be most appropriate.

Please send suggestions to adil@eti.org.uk
[ETI mailing address]