Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm

Scott, Sam, Sam Scott

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781447322030
• eBook ISBN: 9781447322078
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Labour & Industrial Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Labour exploitation is a highly topical though complex issue that has international resonance for those concerned with social justice and social welfare, but there is a lack of research available about it. This book, part of the Studies in Social Harm series, is the first to look at labour exploitation from a social harm perspective, arguing that, as a global social problem, it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm.

Written by an expert in policy orientated research, he critiques existing approaches to the study of workplace exploitation, abuse and forced labour. Mapping out a new sub-discipline, this innovative book aims to shift power from employers to workers to reduce levels of labour exploitation and work-based harm. It is relevant to academics from many fields as well as legislators, policy makers, politicians, employers, union officials, activists and consumers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of poems
• Lists of figures, tables and boxes
• List of abbreviations
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• I am a human being
• ONE: Introduction
• Equals
• TWO: The labour exploitation continuum
• The manager
• THREE: Lessons of history
• War alarm
• FOUR: Direct workplace controls
• The coffee maker
• FIVE: Indirect workplace controls
• The black eye
• SIX: Exogenous controls
• ‘Sitting down, you can do on your own time’
• SEVEN: Navigating the edges of acceptability
• Terrified animals
• EIGHT: Preventing exploitation and harm
• We
• NINE: Conclusions
• Notes
• References