Modern Slavery [electronic resource] : The Margins of Freedom /
O'Connell Davidson, Julia.author.
Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Imagining modernity, forgetting slavery -- Marking the boundaries of slavery -- Slavery and wage labour : freedom and its doubles -- Mastery, race, and nation : prisons and borders as transatlantic slavery's living legacies -- Mobility, domination, escape and the state : "trafficking" as a modern slave trade -- State authorized mobility, slavery, and forced labour -- Slaves and wives : a question of consent -- Happy endings?.
Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.
Social policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Economic development.
Ethnicity.
Political sociology.
Criminology.
Social Policy.
Migration.
Development Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
Political Sociology.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.