Despite the introduction of laws to try to stop it, so-called modern slavery—whether in the form of domestic servitude, sex trafficking, child labor, or other exploitative practices—is still on the rise in the United Kingdom and other industrialized nations. This hugely topical book, written by a team of activists and experts, is the first to provide a critical assessment of modern anti-slavery legislation. The Modern Slavery Agenda argues that, contrary to its stated ambitions, the UK’s Modern Slavery Act is inconsistent, inadequate and punitive, paradoxically fostering conditions that promote the very acts it aims to outlaw, and offers strategies for improvement in policy and practice. The authors not only gather evidence from across the field, but also provide strategies for improvements in policy and practice.
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"Combining diverse commentators dealing with 'modern slavery', this book provides a sweeping criticism of the UK response. Several years after the Modern Slavery Act was enacted, it's a timely call for improvement." Sasha Jesperson, Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery, St. Mary's University "Timely and important It is difficult to do justice to the breadth and depth of expertise, information and analysis in this densely packed book." Institute of Race Relations Weekly Digest, 22 May - 4 June 2019 "A truly thought-provoking collection of chapters on the recent journey the U.K has been on with regard to modern slavery." David Gadd, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
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| Editorial introduction: the modern slavery agenda: policy, politics and practice |
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One Modern slavery in global context: ending the political economy of forced labour and slavery |
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Two The UK's response to modern slavery: law, policy and politics |
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Three Defeating `modern slavery', reducing exploitation? The organisational and regulatory challenge |
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Four Class Acts? A comparative analysis of modern slavery legislation across the UK |
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Five Child trafficking in the UK |
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Six Human trafficking: addressing the symptom, not the cause |
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Seven Still punishing the wrong people: the criminalisation of potential trafficked cannabis gardeners |
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Eight Modern slavery and transparency in supply chains: the role of business |
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Nine Migrant illegality, slavery and exploitative work |
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Ten The UK's approach to tackling modern slavery in a European context |
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Gary Craig is a Visiting Professor at the Law School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and at the University of York. He previously worked as a community development activist. He has researched and published widely in the fields of poverty, race and ethnicity and modern slavery; He co-convenes the national network Modern Slavery Research Consortium.
Alex Balch is Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool. He is also Associate Head of School for Research and Impact and Co-Director, the Centre for the Study of International Slavery. He has researched and published widely on forced labour, migration, support for survivors and on the organizational systems in the UK such as the GLAA and Border Agency.
Dr Hannah Lewis is Vice-Chancellors Fellow, at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include community and social relationships, migration and refugee studies; immigration and asylum policy; forced labour and modern slavery, faith and anti-trafficking; and the ethics and methodologies of research with migrant populations. Her work has been published in many journals and she has contributed to three books.
Louise Waite is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests focus on discourses of modern slavery, unfree/forced labour and exploitative work among asylum seekers and refugees. She has published in a range of peer reviewed journals and in recent collaborative books
