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When Victims of Modern Slavery Became Offenders: The Unravelling of the UK’s Modern Slavery Agenda
Journal of Human TraffickingWhile 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 ...
David Gadd, Rosemary Broad
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Impact of modern slavery allegations on operating performance
Supply Chain Management, 2022 Purpose Modern slavery is a humanitarian problem that affects global supply chains. Given the increasing pressures from legislature, consumers and investors, firms have a growing interest in eliminating forced labor and modern slavery from their supply ...
Kezban Yagci Sokat, N. Altay
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, 2017 A review of Flores, T., & Wells, P. (2016). Slavery in the land of the free: A student’s guide to modern day slavery. Boise, ID: Ampelon Publishing. 175 pp.
Harriger, Sherill
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Slavery is bad for business: analyzing the impact of slavery on national economies [PDF]
, 2013 Public discourse on human trafficking and modern-day slavery is reaching a tipping point -- it is coming to be understood as a global problem with economic and policy implications far beyond simple reports of cross-border human trafficking.
Bales, Kevin, Datta, Monti Narayan
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‘A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Hoermann, Raphael
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Social Science Research NetworkThis study examines the association between textual disclosure readability in modern slavery reports and firm value. Using 212 Australian modern slavery statements for the financial year 2019–2020, a positive association is found between more readable ...
Amitav Saha, Sudipta Bose, H. Khan
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Journal of Risk Research, 2020 This paper reflects on the implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on modern slavery risks in supply chains. We first reason that the global supply and demand shock resulting from COVID-19 exacerbates workers’ vulnerability to modern slavery.
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Preventing the Criminalisation of Children Who Have Been Victims of Group-Based Sexual Exploitation Involving Grooming Tactics—Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation as Enslavement [PDF]
, 2019 Recently the United Kingdom has been beset by a moral panic concerning gangs grooming girls for sexual exploitation. This moral panic derived from a number of well-publicised cases, the most infamous of which took place in Rochdale, Greater Manchester ...
Arthur, Raymond, Down, Lisa
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Patterns of Enslavement and Economic Oppression of Central Virginia [PDF]
, 2017 I address how anthropologists can identify the patterns and development of slavery and economic oppression through archaeology and the visualization of Virginia enslavement. I focus on the enslaved people of James Madison\u27s Montpelier.
Bedwell, Hannah
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John Lamont of Benmore: a Highland planter who died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad [PDF]
, 2018 This article traces the rise of John Lamont, a Highland planter in nineteenth-century Trinidad. The island was subsumed into the British Empire in 1802, the third wave of colonization in the British West Indies and just thirty-two years before slavery ...
Mullen, Stephen
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