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Modern Slavery : the margins of freedom

By: Davidson, Julia O'Connell
Material type: BookPublisher: Basingstoke, ZULU : Palgrave Macmillan, c2015.Description: x, 250 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 978-1137297280Subject(s): Slave trade | Slavery | Forced labor | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CultureDDC classification: 306.362 DA MO Online resources: Location Map
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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.
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1. Imagining Modernity, Forgetting Slavery 2. Marking the Boundaries of Slavery 3. Slavery and Wage Labour: Freedom and its Doubles 4. Mastery, Race, and Nation: Prisons and Borders as Transatlantic Slavery's Living Legacies 5. Mobility, Domination, Escape and the State: 'Trafficking' as a modern Slave Trade 6. State authorized Mobility, Slavery, and Forced Labour 7. Slaves and Wives: A Question of Consent 8. 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.

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