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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
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The Morrison government is facing growing calls to tighten anti-slavery laws with the Australian Council of Trade Unions arguing the current rules leave the door “wide open” for products made with Chinese forced labour to be imported. With the UK flagging a new crackdown this week, the Australian Border Force said the federal government was “closely monitoring” actions in other countries and would consider potential fines for breaches in a.