Modern Slavery

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.

Highly original, the first to provide a critical take on the debate on slavery This book demands of the academyand human rights campaignersa marked shift in direction. It advances the world of modern slavery studies and anti-slavery activism towards understanding Author Julia O'Connell Davidson is a leading scholar of modern slavery and is regularly approached by the media to comment on issues such as prostitution, trafficking, sex tourism and child prostitution This is an important and timely publication, with the UK and US currently working towards new bills and foundations to help reduce modern slavery. The Walk Free Foundation estimates that modern slavery affects more than 35 million people across the world today - making it a matter high on the political agenda

Autorentext
Julia O'Connell Davidson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include employment relations, sex work, childhood, migration, trafficking and slavery, and she is author of Children in the Global Sex Trade (2005), Prostitution, Power and Freedom (1998), and Privatization and Employment Relations (1993).

Inhalt

1. Imagining Modernity, Forgetting Slavery

   2. Marking the Boundaries of Slavery

   3. Slavery and Wage Labour: Freedom and its Doubles

   4. Mastery, Race, and Nation: Prisons and Borders as Transatlantic Slavery's Living Legacies

   5. Mobility, Domination, Escape and the State: 'Trafficking' as a modern Slave Trade
   6. State authorized Mobility, Slavery, and Forced Labour

   7. Slaves and Wives: A Question of Consent

   8. Happy Endings?