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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 January 2025
      23 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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