‘Modern slavery’ describes various forms of severe relational labour exploitation. In the realm global value chains and factories that are led by multinational enterprises, modern slavery encompasses practices such as forced debt bondage. Multinational enterprises organise orchestrate into highly adaptive to market pressures changes in external environment. We employ factory framework conceptua...

Through a close examination of the exhibition Afterlives Slavery, which opened on 6 October 2017 at Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, this article interrogates issues and contradictions emerging from thinking through decoloniality – within halls an ethnographic museum located centre former colonial metropole. In recent years, has been engaged process reckoning with its position history empire. To ends...

The antislavery and antiracist oratory of Frederick Douglass is a powerful case study the appropriation transformation “the master’s tools.” Douglass’s formative exposure to classical rhetorical tradition well known—but just as important are ways in which he subverted it. He did so by developing categorically new, hybrid role: orator-slave. Slavery played an part conceptual apparatus Ciceronian...

Recent years have seen a renewed focus on labor standards in the supply chain, prompted by legislation that requires firms to provide an account of their efforts combat modern slavery. However, as common problem non-financial disclosure regulation, companies can decide extent and content reporting, which could potentially result merely symbolic disclosures with little substance. We examine subs...

This commentary focuses on the underexplored links between housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Despite significant anecdotal evidence, there is a pressing need for proper theorisation of connections situation vulnerability to combats this lacuna by focusing four types (un)housing: safehouses, social housing, private rented sector. While each site has its own relationship sla...

The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in acceleration of US economic growth nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists, proposition fails under rigorous historical scrutiny. slave South discouraged immigration, underinvested transportation infrastructure, and failed to educate majority its population. It is not even clear region produced more co...