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Modern Slavery : The Margins of Freedom / by Julia O'Connell Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connell Davidson, Julia., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Economic development.
- Race.
- Political sociology.
- Criminology.
- Social Policy.
- Human Migration.
- Development Studies.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Sociology.
- Local Subjects:
- Social Policy.
- Human Migration.
- Development Studies.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Sociology.
- Criminology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137297297
- 1137297298
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