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    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    January 2025
    January 2025
    ISBN:
    9781108562058
    9781108473422
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Modern slavery laws are a response to global capitalism, which undermines the distinction between free and unfree labour and poses intense challenges to state sovereignty. Instead of being a solution, Constructing Modern Slavery argues that modern slavery laws divert attention from the underlying structures and processes that generate exploitation. Focusing on unfree labour associated with international immigration and global supply chains, it provides a novel socio-legal genealogy of the concept 'modern slavery' through a series of linked case studies of influential actors associated with key legal instruments: the United Nations, the United States, the International Labour Organization, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Walk Free Foundation. Constructing Modern Slavery demonstrates that despite the best efforts of academics, advocates, and policymakers to develop a truly multifaceted approach to modern slavery, it is difficult to uncouple antislavery initiatives from the conservative moral and economic agendas with which they are aligned. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Constructing Modern Slavery
    pp i-ii
  • Constructing Modern Slavery - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Law, Capitalism, and Unfree Labour
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-vi
  • Acknowledgements
    pp vii-x
  • International Conventions
    pp xi-xii
  • Council of Europe Conventions
    pp xiii-xiv
  • European Union Treaties, Directives, and Agreements
    pp xv-xx
  • Statutes
    pp xxi-xxii
  • Jurisprudence
    pp xxiii-xxiv
  • Abbreviations
    pp xxv-xxvi
  • Introduction
    pp 1-12
  • 1 - From White Slavery to Human Trafficking
    pp 13-40
  • 2 - Philanthrocapitalism’s Market-Friendly Solution
    pp 41-64
  • 3 - The ILO’s Governance of Forced Labour
    pp 65-98
  • 4 - The EU’s Integrated and Holistic Approach
    pp 99-130
  • 5 - The UK’s Crackdown on Illegal Work and Human Trafficking
    pp 131-163
  • 6 - Global Britain and the Modern Slavery Act 2015
    pp 164-202
  • Conclusion
    pp 203-220
  • Bibliography
    pp 221-258
  • Index
    pp 259-272

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