Slavery: Under the Banner of Globalization

Let me argue how globalization creates modern day slavery.By analyzing two of the most successful anti-globalization video documentaries (No Logo and The Corporation) in recent times. I argue that globalization has taken slavery to a new height where not only a person can be enslaved by another but nations and corporations can enslave a substantial population of the world. By drawing from the contents of these films, I note how, despite being anti- globalization, both of these documentaries exclude the notion of slavery in their narrative. I also study modern slavery and globalization as the “new ruler “drawing from the work of Kevin bales and john Pilger respectively. My aim is to identify how, in the shadow of globalization, slavery is created and sustained by the global systems of economics, mobility, control and exploitation and also how these systems are rarely called a slavery-system despite having substantially visible characteristic of slavery in their mechanisms and in their results. It is my observation that people still have the notion of late19^th century slavery in mind and therefore are unable to see its new forms and manifestations. This paper will explore these forms and manifestation in a way that they can seen as globalized slavery, an expensive and all pervasive product of globalization.