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Why 16 Million Bonded Labourers Remain Invisible: What Althusser Has to Say
Author of The Global Leader TM at kevinbrinkmann.com, New Delhi, India
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Advances in Applied Sociology·Volume 08 (2018)·Pages 49–55·Published 8 January 2018·DOI10.4236/aasoci.2018.81003
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Abstract
Seventy years after the UN Declaration of Human Rights, sixteen million bonded labours remain largely unnoticed in South Asia. Why? The most fundamental reason may not lie within economics or politics but in ideology.
KeywordsIdeologyHegemonySlaveryCriminal SociologySouth Asia
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