Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy

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· Cambridge University Press
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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.
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 hugel...

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Genevieve LeBaron is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and an award-winning expert on the contemporary business of forced labor. She is the author of Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and How We Can Fix It (2020), among other books and articles. She was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020.

Jessica R. Pliley is an Associate Professor of Women's and Gender History at Texas State University. She is an editor of Global Anti-Vice Activism and the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (2014). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women's History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality.

David Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), among other books, book chapters, and articles. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Genevieve LeBaron is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and an award-winning expert on the contemporary business of forced labor. She is the author of Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and How We Can Fix It (2020), among other books and articles. She wa...

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