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Slavery Footprint is a survey that asks and responds to the question, “How Many Slaves Work For You?”. Users input data about their consumer spending habits, then the survey calculates the user's participation in modern-day slavery as quantified by their consumption of items created by
forced labor
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of e ...
and
child labor
Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such ...
.
The creators of Slavery Footprint researched the
supply chains
In commerce, a supply chain is a network of facilities that procure raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products to customers through a distribution system. It refers to the network of organizations, people, activ ...
of 400 consumer products to determine the likely number of slaves it takes to make each of those products.https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/slavery-footprint-forced-labor-app-calculator/ The purpose of the survey is to increase awareness of forced labor and child labor and engage the public in taking steps toward addressing the use of forced labor, by encouraging users to advocate with strategic actions in the marketplace.