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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the role of technology in human trafficking in Pakistan: A qualitative study of lived experiences of victims. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Khan Z   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Weight of Legitimate Expectations in a Just Climate Transition

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ambition to decarbonize societies calls for a normative theory of just transitions. An important aspect of such a theory is to scrutinize the moral entitlements of stakeholders whose status quo expectations get frustrated in the course of sustainability transitions.
J.K.G. Hopster
wiley   +1 more source

Inefficiencies in the division of labour in human societies. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Diehl C, Preisendörfer P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? UK–EU Member States Bilateralism as an Enabler of Europeanisation

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst an extensive scholarship has questioned the role of the United Kingdom in multilateral and mini‐lateral venues, less attention has been devoted to the signature of 24 bilateral declarations between the United Kingdom and EU member states from 2021 to 2023.
Sarah Wolff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulation and Governance Gaps in the Detection of Labour Exploitation Within State‐Funded Domestic Services

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining the provision of domestic care, this article highlights governance gaps in the regional administration of labour rights protections within the direct state funding of long‐term care. Drawing upon data from secondary sources and semi‐structured interviews with stakeholders in four European countries, municipal activities including ...
Caroline Emberson
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This special issue (SI) foregrounds critical perspectives in studying the EU's global role, acknowledging their historical marginalisation within scholarship dominated by mainstream approaches. The project is theoretical with significant normative and practical implications, that is, for activism and policy‐making. Our primary goal is to bring
Dimitris Bouris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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