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Analysts: More Robots, Greater Risk of Slavery in Asia

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The rise of robots in manufacturing in Southeast Asia is likely to fuel modern slavery as workers who end up unemployed thanks to automation face abuses competing for a shrinking pool of low-paid jobs in a “race to the bottom,” analysts said Thursday. Drastic job losses because of the growth of automation in the region, a hub for many manufacturing sectors from garments to vehicles, could produce a spike in labor abuses and slavery in global supply chains, said risk consultancy Verisk...

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