This article highlights labor trafficking in Germany's meat industry, indicating a strong link to low-wage sectors and consumer demand.
This article explores human trafficking for labor in Germany's meat industry. Journalists have often associated trafficking with Asia (above all Thailand) and with sex work. In fact, human trafficking for (non-sex) labor is more common globally, and it is endemic in the Federal Republic. The article argues that three features of the German economy make the country highly susceptible to labor trafficking: (1) its export-driven growth model reliant on low wages, (2) the size of its low-wage sector, and (3) its highly price-sensitive consumer market. German consumers want to pay less and less—and ideally nothing—for more and more.
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