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Modern Slavery Policies in a Conceptual Perspective [PDF]
International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences, 2018 Most of the people assume modern slavery end up in 19th century. However, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO), today 40 million people live as a slave. Moreover, modern slavery is the world’s fastest growing crime and has huge number,
Imran Sarihasan, Domicián Máté
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Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery. [PDF]
J Manag Inq, 2022 Despite growing attention from companies and regulators looking to eradicate modern slavery, we know little about how slavery works from a business perspective. We address this gap by empirically examining innovations in the business models of modern slavery, focusing on how the business models of slavery in advanced economies have evolved since ...
Crane A +4 more
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Modern slavery and the race to fish [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 There have been growing concerns about the exploitation of workers in the fisheries sectors. Here, Tickler et al. use a country-level metric of slavery to determine the risk of fisheries-level slavery across 20 countries, and find it rises as unreported ...
David Tickler +10 more
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2022 This article investigates the role of the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018 as a reporting mechanism aimed at preventing the use of forced labour in global supply chains.
Harriette Richards
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Institutional Logics in the UK Construction Industry's Response to Modern Slavery Risk: Complementarity and Conflict. [PDF]
J Bus Ethics, 2023 There is a growing understanding that modern slavery is a phenomenon ‘hidden in plain sight’ in the home countries of multinational firms. Yet, business scholarship on modern slavery has so far focussed on product supply chains.
Pesterfield C, Rogerson M.
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The unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation. [PDF]
Child Soc, 2022 This article discusses the unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives of the children of survivors of modern slavery, child victims of exploitation and children at risk of exploitation in the UK.
Jiménez E +12 more
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Globalization and Modern Slavery
Politics and Governance, 2019 This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different dimensions of globalization and modern slavery. It argues that both the economic and political dimensions of globalization are strongly associated with ...
Todd Landman, Bernard W. Silverman
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The Quest to End Modern Slavery: Metaphors in corporate modern slavery statements
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2019 This paper focuses on the modern slavery statements of three major UK high street retailers who are known for their relatively pro-active approach to the debate on corporate responsibility for ethical trading.
Ilse A. Ras, Christiana Gregoriou
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Modern Slavery in Business: The Sad and Sorry State of a Non-Field [PDF]
Business & Society, 2020 “Modern slavery,” a term used to describe severe forms of labor exploitation, is beginning to spark growing interest within business and society research.
Robert Caruana +3 more
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When Victims of Modern Slavery Became Offenders: The Unravelling of the UK’s Modern Slavery Agenda
CrimRxivWhile victims of trafficking who commit crimes have a defense in law in England and Wales, this has not been without controversy in the courts and is increasingly threatened in practice as British government ministers heap suspicion on those formally seeking recognition as victims of modern slavery.
David Gadd, Rose Broad
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