But it also meant that, just for once, we could have some time off from the modern penal servitude of looking.
Figures released by the National Crime Agency in September estimated that 2,744 people, including 602 children, were trafficked for exploitation in the UK in 2013, a 22% increase on 2012, with some forced to work in brothels, others in domestic servitude, and others exploited in factories, on farms and building sites.
He entered No 10 wearing the straw boater of jaunty comical arrogance; he recently tried the itchy woollen hat of humble public servitude; and now he wanders between micro-managed photo-opportunities – a milk-guzzling lamb, a paint-smeared child – without any hat at all, bareheaded in the storms.
Just as the Occupy demonstrators broke into the building creating a stand-off between themselves and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, another symbol of the demise of Irish capitalism was facing fiscal servitude in Dublin.
Walker puts together the social and aesthetic aspects of stardom along with a very human and detached appreciation of success and failure: not just a film star's celebrity, but also the attendant servitude and loss of privacy (not to say identity).
Yet while dozens of recruitment agencies are pulling out the stops to attract potential employers – including parading women in front of potential employers who can take them home on the spot – they are also being accused of selling women and duping them into a life of domestic servitude.
A young woman at the end of French rule in Tunisia begins to realise that her beautiful mother's servitude in colonial times was sexual as well as economic.
Slavery can involve sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude or forced criminality, he said.
In his 34 years as an activist, Satyarthi has freed tens of thousands of young Indians, some just five or six years old, forced into servitude by unscrupulous agents, businessmen, landowners and brothel owners.
I cannot reconcile myself to this wretched servitude".
Planting his own feet in the mire of imperial Japan's wartime history, he questioned whether the 200,000 or so "comfort women" (from Korea, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Burma and elsewhere) herded into the system of brothels run by the Japanese Imperial Army had really been coerced into their sexual servitude.
