Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy

Author: Genevieve LeBaron; Jessica R. Pliley; David W. Blight
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108830621

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781108822404
Published In: July 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Assembles leading scholars from the Yale Working Group on Modern Slavery tackle key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery movement
Spans the 18th century to the present, bringing together insights about abolitionism and slavery
Presents rare empirical evidence from across a range of policy areas, sectors, and supply chains on the (in)effectiveness of anti-slavery efforts

Preface

1. Introduction: fighting modern slavery from past to present

2. Counting modern Slaves: Historicizing the Emancipatory Work of Numbers

3. Working Analogies: Slavery Now and Then

4. Free soil, Free Produce, Free Communities

5. Ambivalent Abolitionist Legacies: The League of Nations' Investigations into Sex Trafficking, 1927–1934

6. Mexico's New Slavery: a Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking (la trata de personas)

7. Undermining Labor Power: the False Promise of the Industry-Led Anti-Slavery Initiatives

8. A Market in Deception? Ethically Certifying Exploitative Supply Chains

9. Preventing Human Trafficking: the Role of the IOM and the UN Global Compact on migration

10. Integrated and indivisible: the Sustainable Development Agenda of Modern Slavery Survivor Narratives

Afterword;