Yet... The slavery continues.

How can we be so blind?

Money, Money, Money
It's so funny:)

It's a rich man's world, yet being rich between the ears has its advantages too...

Giggles:) or Googles.
How many "employees" do they have? 8 billions?

In the Viking age some had slaves Trälar (Thralls).
They found out it was cheaper to pay them minimum wages instead.

Did slave trade stopped?
No. Even today we have berry pickers from Thailand that are not paid at all!
Not even paying for their mosquito protection:(
Where there are berries there are a LOT of mosquitos.
Nice scenary though in the midnight sun:)

EDIT: Some more on slavery in Sverige, Svealand, Götaland and Gotland. Not Norrland and Finland:)
A Thrall (Old Norse þræl or þræll, probably originally meaning 'errand boy') was a slave in the Nordic Iron Age and Middle Ages. The term originally referred only to men; the female counterpart was called ambátt (probably of Gallic Latin ambactus, 'servant'). The legal and social conditions they lived in was called Träldom (bondage) and was a form of slavery.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amb%C3%A1tt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statare

Two must read about the topic from our perspective.

The People of Hemsö (Swedish: Hemsöborna) is an 1887 novel by August Strindberg about the life of people of the island Hemsö in the Stockholm archipelago. Hemsö is a fictional island, but it is based on Kymmendö where Strindberg had spent time in his youth. Strindberg wrote the book to combat his homesickness while living abroad in Germany and France.
Värmlander Carlsson comes to Hemsö in the Stockholm archipelago to help Madame Flod to bring order to the farm. An archipelago story in three parts by August Strindberg.
In 1955 a movie based on the novel was shown; it marked the first film appearance of the actress Daliah Lavi from Israel.
In 1966 a TV series based on the novel was produced.
http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=33884

Trägudars land (1940) is the first part in Jan Fridegård trilogy about the Viking Age "Sweden". The portrayal of the rebel Holme's struggle against great odds is a hero story with political undertones that belong to the classics of Swedish 1900s prose.
When Hövdingen (cheiftain) gives the order to bring out their newborn children in to the woods the thralls Holme and Ausi flees from the settlement on Lake Mälaren. Their refuge they find in Birka, a city that is characterized by critical period between paganism and Christianity.

More on the topic.
Swedish slave trade:(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade

Sweden had treaties with England and France concerning slave trade, with Swedish vessels involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Between 1784 and 1878, the country held minor colonies in the Caribbean. The Swedish island Saint-Barthélemy functioned as a duty-free port and became a major center for the Caribbean slave trade. Slaves were brought in tax free by foreign vessels and the Swedish king made a profit by collecting an export tax when slaves were shipped out. Sweden was also a major supplier of iron chains used in the slave trade.

Thralldom was outlawed in 1335 by Magnus IV of "Sweden" for thralls "born by Christian parents" in Västergötland and Värend, being the last parts where it had remained legal. This however, was only applicable within the borders of "Sweden", which opened up for later slave trade in the colonies.