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Lured Into Bondage.(World Affairs; ASIA)(Forced labor)
A growing back channel of global trade tricks millions into forced labor.
Some of the world's leading computer makers don't want you to know about Local Technic Industry. It's a typical Malaysian company, one of many small makers of the cast-aluminum bodies for hard-disk drives used in just about every name-brand machine on the market. But that's precisely the problem: it's a typical Malaysian company.
About 60 percent of Local Technic's 160 employees are from outside Malaysia--and a company executive says he pities those guest workers. "They have been fooled hook, line and sinker," he says, asking not to be named because others in the business ...
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