'Modern Stone-Age Slavery': Images of Aboriginal Labour and Sexuality

Oppression, sexuality and slavery at the Cape of Good Hope.

During the c igh tecn th Century the Cape was a malc-dominatcd society, at least in numcrica! terms. In 1749, for inslaucc, the i:iuif l ist s revcal that among thosc taxed \vcrc 4,871 a d u l t nialcs (made up of 1.243 hu r^hc r s , scvcnty-fivc frcc blacks, c i y h t y t h r e e kiicïhis. w h o wcrc soldier* and sailors relcascd hy the Dutch Hast Ind ia Company t o \u i rk for hurplicrs. ...

Modern Slavery: A Regional Focus

Kevin Bales, through his study in Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader, provides an important quantitative analysis on the predictive factors of modern slavery. Upon examining his study though, several issues arise including too few observations for several of the variables and the lack of a regional variable. The author decided to rerun his study with replacements for the problematic variabl...

Hope Winner Believes Stone Age Strategies Can Remedy Modern Depression

There he worked in a unit that housed—or “warehoused,” as he puts it—patients with schizophrenia. Many had been abandoned by their families and faced the prospect of spending their lives in mental health institutions. It struck him: “These were people just like me in nearly every way, except for the fact that they were suffering from this tragic disease,” Ilardi recalls. “They could get lonely ...

Forging Modern Labour Economics

Labour economics is often taken by vivid discussions about the specificity of the labour market and the need to develop a different approach, away from the current standard microeconomics. What is often forgotten is that this was not always the case. Labour research in the interwar years was quite different from what we regard presently as labour economics, being much more broadly and loosely d...

Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market