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Why labour unfreedom is a more useful category than modern slavery to challenge exploitative working relations at home and abroad Since the financial crisis, the partial recovery of profitability of business has happened at the expenses of workers worldwide. In the UK, improvements in employment rates have been paralleled by a decline in real wages. Abroad, countries hosting global labour-intensive … Continue reading →
26 July 2016 by Alessandra Mezzadri
Categories: Rethinking Recovery, SPERI Comment
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Tags: Aman Sethi, Bridget Anderson, Coolie Woman, Gaiutra Bahadur, India, Labour unfreedom, profits, Rana Plaza, slavery, Sumangali scheme, violent humanitarianism, workers
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Corporate profits are soaring, but so is labour exploitation. Who is the ‘recovery’ really benefiting? Has the labour market ‘recovered’ since the 2008-09 financial crisis? The answer to this question depends on whom you ask. The labour market is a central part of the UK’s ‘economic recovery’ narrative advanced by political and economic elites. In his address on June 27th … Continue reading →
4 July 2016 by Genevieve LeBaron
Categories: Employment, Rethinking Recovery, SPERI Comment
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Tags: Apple, Beyond Trafficking and Slavery, Brexit, corporate profits, factories, Genevieve LeBaron, ILO, iPhone, labour exploitation, migrants, real wage, wage theft, workers, zero-hours contract
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To prevent another economic crisis, we must address the spread and normalization of indecent work Global capitalism’s promise was to pull people out of poverty by creating decent work. It hasn’t delivered, and an escalating jobs crisis is now at the centre of the global economy’s ‘gathering storm.’ As of 2014, over 200 million people in the world were unemployed … Continue reading →
22 June 2016 by Genevieve LeBaron
Categories: SPERI Comment, The coming crisis
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Tags: exploitation, ILO, Labour, OECD, unemployment, workers
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Modern slavery and the gendered paradoxes of labour unfreedom
Why labour unfreedom is a more useful category than modern slavery to challenge exploitative working relations at home and abroad Since the financial crisis, the partial recovery of profitability of business has happened at the expenses of workers worldwide. In the UK, improvements in employment rates have been paralleled by a decline in real wages. Abroad, countries hosting global labour-intensive … Continue reading →
26 July 2016 by Alessandra Mezzadri
Categories: Rethinking Recovery, SPERI Comment | Tags: Aman Sethi, Bridget Anderson, Coolie Woman, Gaiutra Bahadur, India, Labour unfreedom, profits, Rana Plaza, slavery, Sumangali scheme, violent humanitarianism, workers | Leave a comment