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At a time of crisis, I had no support network So I made my own | Emily Kenway

Without any obvious ‘next of kin’, I turned to a group of female friends to help. It proved revelatory ‘I liked the idea of a community of women, able to rely on each other in a more defined and intentional way than friendship often affords.’ Emily Kenway (far left) with her “sisterhood” in 2019. Photograph: Emily Kenway ‘I liked the idea of a community of women, able to rely on each other in a more defined and intentional way than friendship often affords.’ Emily Kenway (far left) with her “sisterhood” in 2019. Photograph: Emily Kenway Mon 24 May 2021 09.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 10.18 EDT

At a time of crisis, I had no support network So I made my own

At a time of crisis, I had no support network. So I made my own Emily Kenway At the start of 2019, I found myself in an A&E in east London with a high fever and struggling to breathe. But the symptoms weren’t my only problem. The woman behind the hospital check-in desk asked for my next of kin. Suddenly, I realised I had no name to give her. My mum, who’d raised me without a partner, was fighting for her life after a transplant, part of her gruelling cancer treatment. I was also single for the first time in a long time. I blinked back tears as I sent a message to a group of friends asking whether it was OK for me to give one of their contact details.

The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway review – too much hollow talk

The Truth About Modern Slavery by Emily Kenway review – too much hollow talk
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Modern slavery : grandstanding vs helping workers organise

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36911 Modern slavery : grandstanding vs helping workers organise Submitted by AWL on 2 March, 2021 - 7:04 Emily Kenway is a former adviser to the UK’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the author of Solidarity. (The book is reviewed here.) Can you explain a little of what the book is about, and why you wrote it? The book is about how modern slavery is a particular narrative about exploitation, constructed largely by philanthrocapitalists, anti-sex work activists and anti-migrant politicians. It shows how calling exploitation “modern slavery”, and all that this entails, suggests a moral crusade but undermines the actions needed to improve the lives of those at the bottom of global hierarchies. I felt it needed to be written largely because I saw people on the “left” completely missing this, and either regurgitating the narrative without critical thought, or dismissing the whole idea because “all wor

Complete disregard for health and safety : The unsafe working conditions in fast fashion warehouses

On 23 March the UK went into lockdown as Covid-19 rapidly spread throughout the country. Many businesses were told to close-up shop, workers were told to work from home and the economy essentially shut down for the following four months. However, it has recently been reported that in factories supplying clothes for Boohoo in Sheffield, workers were forced to continue going to work, social distancing rules were breached and hygiene measures were never put in place. An investigation into working practices at the Boohoo factory was launched after 28 workers tested positive for Covid-19. It was reported in the Daily Mail that workers shared cars on their way to work, employees went in despite feeling ill and many claimed that they felt their lives were put at risk.

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