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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCountries quietly solidify their right to use forced labourRecent international legal developments that appear to strengthen efforts to combat forced labour – such as the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryForced labour is big business: states and corporations are doing little to stop itThe recent flurry of government, corporate, and NGO initiatives to eradicate slavery does little to tackle...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income and the anti-slavery movementUnconditional basic income is not only feasible, but it also has more emancipatory potential than any other single...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat would loosen the roots of labour exploitation in supply chains?Forced labour is a symptom of a wider malaise facing workers in global supply chains. Governance gaps and skewed...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe politics of numbers: the Global Slavery Index and the marketplace of activismThe Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryILO campaigns: missing the wood for the trees?
The ILO’s struggle against forced labour doesn’t go far enough. By abstracting ‘forced labour’ from capitalism, it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery and the responsibilities of individual consumers
How can one be an ethical consumer in a globalised world? There are ways to mitigate our involvement in harmful...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAddressing forced labour in fragmented chains of productionWhat are the prospects for protecting workers in global supply chains? From UN principles to business and worker...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGlobal supply chains: the role of law? A role for law!
International law lacks stringent mechanisms for ensuring worker protection in global supply chains. It is the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHarsh labour: bedrock of global capitalismGlobal supply chains are not benign spheres of opportunity, but tools for increasing the exploitation of labour in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDespite claims of progress, labor and environmental violations continue to plague AppleThough Apple claims that 2014 was "a year of progress," reports from labor rights groups and researchers reveal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFree to stitch, or starve: capitalism and unfreedom in the global garment industryGrowing attention is focused on ‘modern slavery’ and forced labour in the garment industry, but broader forms of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFood retailers, market concentration and forced labourMarket concentration is driving forced labour in the food industry, as retailers’ unprecedented power allows them to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStill slaving over sugarDespite the many 19th century acts declaring the emancipation of the enslaved, there are still practices in sugar...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCapitalism’s unfree global workforceNeoliberal migration and border regimes instantiate a de facto forced labour regime. Migration is increasingly key...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryForced labour under a changing climate: droughts and debt in semi-arid IndiaClimatic change compounds the vulnerabilities and dependencies existing between households in semi-arid South Asia....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe role of labour market intermediaries in driving forced and unfree labourThere has been lots of talk about multinational corporations’ responsibility for fuelling forced labour. But what...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat has forced labour to do with poverty?Income-based measures of poverty are unreliable for determining who is most vulnerable to forced labour. More...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroducing Beyond Slavery’s month on forced labour in the global political economyBeyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their February issue exploring the political economic contexts of...
