Forced Labour in Sweden: The case of migrant berry pickers

Abstract

This project is part of a comparative international study commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, UK, and led by the Working Lives Research Institute of London Metropolitan University. It involves researchers in a number of European countries including UK, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Poland, Spain and Sweden. The project examines in each, the forms and extent of forced labour, the legislative and policy contexts, and opportunities for those subject to forced labour to seek redress through the civil or criminal law, local authorities or government agencies, NGOs, trade unions or other civil society actors. Case studies are illustrated with examples of good or innovative practice in securing redress.

Keywords

Decent work agenda, Migrant rights, Regulation/deregulation, berry pickers, forced labour

Publications

C. Woolfson, P. Herzfeld Olsson and C. Thörnqvist, (2012) Forced Labour and Migrant Berry Pickers in Sweden. International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 28, 2: 147-176.