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.
Autorentext
Julia O'Connell Davidson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include employment relations, sex work, childhood, migration, trafficking and slavery, and she is author of Children in the Global Sex Trade (2005), Prostitution, Power and Freedom (1998), and Privatization and Employment Relations (1993).
Inhalt
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?