Journal article
Modern Slavery, Unfree Labour and the Labour Market
Abstract
Treating the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act as its focus, this article examines what the legal characterization of labour unfreedom reveals about the underlying conception of the labour market that informs contemporary approaches to labour law in the United Kingdom. It discusses how unfree labour is conceptualized within two key literatures – Marxist-inspired political economy and liberal approaches to modern slavery – and their underlying …
Authors
Fudge J
Journal
Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 414–434
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
August 2018
DOI
10.1177/0964663917746736
ISSN
0964-6639