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Bonded Labour in Pakistan: Sociology of Development by Ali Raza Shah is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses bonded labour in Pakistan. It begins by providing context that bonded labour persists in many sectors of the Pakistani economy despite being illegal. It then outlines the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act of 1992, which declared bonded labour systems and advance payments (peshgi) illegal. However, bonded labour continues due to a lack of punishment for perpetrators and poor treatment of labourers by the criminal justice system. The document goes on to examine instances of bonded l

Author

Ali Raza Shah

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EN