Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom

Violence, injustice, and exploitation are all around us, but there is no such thing as ‘modern slavery’, this book argues. Bringing the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, and sex work today, it challenges the ‘new abolitionist’ reading of slavery past and present, and calls for more serious political debate and analysis of the systems of domination (race, caste, class, gender, nationality) that routinely restrict rights and freedoms in the contemporary world.