Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
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Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

History and Contemporary Policy

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking

History and Contemporary Policy

About this book

Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human trafficking has become a cause célèbre. Yet large numbers of researchers, non-governmental organizations, trade unions, workers, and others who would seem like natural allies in the fight against modern slavery and trafficking are hugely skeptical of these movements. They object to how the problems are framed, and are skeptical of the "new abolitionist" movement. Why? This book tackles key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery and anti-trafficking movements head on. Champions and skeptics explore the fissures and fault lines that surround efforts to fight modern slavery and human trafficking today. These include: whether efforts to fight modern slavery displace or crowd out support for labor and migrant rights; whether and to what extent efforts to fight modern slavery mask, naturalize, and distract from racial, gendered, and economic inequality; and whether contemporary anti-slavery and anti-trafficking crusaders' use of history are accurate and appropriate.

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Yes, you can access Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking by Genevieve LeBaron,Jessica R. Pliley,David W. Blight in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Renaissance History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Preface
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. List of Abbreviations
  13. 1 Introduction: Fighting Modern Slavery from Past to Present
  14. 2 Counting Modern Slaves: Historicizing the Emancipatory Work of Numbers
  15. 3 Working Analogies: Slavery Now and Then
  16. 4 Free Soil, Free Produce, Free Communities
  17. 5 Ambivalent Abolitionist Legacies: The League of Nations’ Investigations into Sex Trafficking, 1927–1934
  18. 6 Mexico’s New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking (la trata de personas)
  19. 7 Undermining Labor Power: The False Promise of the Industry-led Antislavery Initiatives
  20. 8 A Market in Deception? Ethically Certifying Exploitative Supply Chains
  21. 9 Preventing Human Trafficking: The Role of the IOM and the UN Global Compact on Migration
  22. 10 Integrated and Indivisible: The Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives
  23. Afterword
  24. Index