Annotated Bibliography Has Been Made on Forced Labour as a Requirement of Associate Degree in Accounting

Introduction:

This Annotated Bibliography has been made on Forced Labour as a requirement of Associate Degree in Accounting.

Annotated Bibliography:

International Labour Organization 2011, ‘Asian Decent Work Decade resource kit: Protecting migrant workers’, 2 e.d., 16 September, viewed 7 March 2016, Bangkok: ILO, http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_098142.pdf .

This book was produced by ILO to help workers, employers and government to learn and to have decent employment for all workers in Asia and the Pacific. The ILO explains the labour migration in Asia and the risks of exploitation and trafficking (ILO 2011). The organisation ensures that all workers are covered by a set principles and standards. The book is useful as it focuses on the cause of forced labour and how it can be managed. However, this book is limited to Asia and the Pacific countries thus further research is needed to understand how forced labour affects global issues. This book will be a useful tool and provide background information to support my topic.

The University of Queensland 2015, Labour Trafficking in Australia, viewed 8 March 2016, http://www.law.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=168272.

The University of Queensland (2015) talks about investigations and prosecutors and the indicators of labour trafficking by industries. Industries which often engage in types of labour that Australian people unwillingly do, that leads to giving up to immigrant workers resulted in foreign worker dependency. This information is not generally definite, but emphasises the vulnerability of foreign workers and gives examples of behaviour that may be indicative of trafficking. The writer used different situations of law cases to support the exploitation that could fall within labour trafficking, which is the scope of this research. This is useful as (The University of Queensland 2015) applies different scenarios using legal cases to prove labour trafficking in Australia. Thus, indicate further research to be undertaken to extend depth in understanding with regards to labour trafficking. With this information, I can support my topic against the legal cases presented.

Ballinger, J 2011, 'How Civil Society Can Help', Harvard International Review, 33, 2, pp. 54-59, viewed 6 March 2016, Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, EBSCOhost.

Ballinger (2011) talks about how can non-governmental organisations and civil society helps reduce labour exploitation in developing countries and allegations of increasing sweatshops (hard labour) were illustrated in exchange of a low or no income. This is useful as it suggests solutions of reduction of labour exploitation. With this article, I can explain better the reasons of how can we prevent this issue by starting to lessen it and why it is right to do so. This will be the one main focus of my supporting detail in my essay because this article focuses more on whether business organisations (profit or non-profit) can help prevent and eventually put a stop in regards to forced labour.