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Forced labour and risk factors for inferior working conditions in Thai fishing sector

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  • Arimoto, Yutaka
  • Machikita, Tomohiro
  • Tsubota, Kenmei

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Severe working conditions on Thai fishing boats have received international attention as the so-called modern slavery, at least, since 2005. Using a survey in 2012 of fishermen on fishing boats in four provinces of Thailand conducted by the International Labour Organization, this paper examines the ranges of unacceptable working conditions by extending the measurement of forced labour. This paper makes two main contributions by identifying the degree of forced labour and measuring their working conditions. First, we conceptualise two situations, forced labour and possibly forced labour, with different combinations of available variables, which is an attempt to capture the multidimentional complexity in measuring forced labour. Second, we analysed the associated working conditions among the workers. We confirmed that fishing boats are places of forced labour and destinations of trafficked persons, and that the working conditions of forced and possibly forced workers are inferior to those of other workers.

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  • Arimoto, Yutaka & Machikita, Tomohiro & Tsubota, Kenmei, 2018. "Forced labour and risk factors for inferior working conditions in Thai fishing sector," IDE Discussion Papers 685, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
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    Keywords

    Human trafficking; Forced labour; Working conditions; Thailand; Work environment; Fisheries; Labor conditions;
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    JEL classification:

    • J47 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Coercive Labor Markets
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

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