The British government has admitted to having no plans to recognise the UN International Decade for People of African Descent. At a time when racialised discrimination and inequality are rampant, this is unacceptable.
Life for voiceless, low paid parcel delivery workers exposes the harsh realities of degraded work in 21st-century Britain.
BTS speaks with Jyoti Macwan of the Self Employed Women’s Association of India on the invisibility of homeworkers in the Indian labour force.
BTS speaks with the director of the Center for Global Workers’ Rights on what creates a race to the bottom in supply chains. Español
The #FilieraSporca campaign was established to track the orange supply chain across Italy from the fields to supermarkets’ shelves. It calls for ‘cleaning’ the supply chain through tracking and labelling.
BTS speaks with Elizabeth Nzilani Peter, an employee of a Kenyan coffee cooperative, on the need to recognise homeworkers as part of the formal labour force.
Why labour unfreedom is a more useful category than modern slavery to challenge exploitative working relations at home and abroad. Español
At this year's International Labour Conference, BTS interviewed US labour leader Cathy Feingold.
The everyday lives of sub-Saharan African migrants in Morocco are deeply affected by violent policies of border control. While existing laws create problems, the further burdens of history make things even worse.
Italy’s public opinion calls migrant day-labourers in the agricultural sector ‘new slaves’, but where are the voices of these workers in the debate?
Debt is everywhere a tool of social control, and no more so than in the brick kilns of Pakistani Punjab, where it travels across generations. Español
The life histories of slave descendants in Madagascar help us understand how legacies of slavery contribute to contemporary patterns of exploitation. They illuminate ongoing and everyday struggles against socio-economic subordination.
