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“Queen of the fields”: Slavery’s Graphic Violence and the Black Female Body in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2019
This paper examines Steve McQueen’s strategy in 12 Years a Slave, which consists in filming the horrors of slavery through a narrative construction that mostly concerns Solomon Northup, a “temporary” slave who survives slavery, and a visual construction ...
Hélène Charlery
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Modern Slavery: Law, Human Rights, and New Forms of Data

open access: yesHuman Rights Quarterly, 2020
:This article argues that many of the lessons learned and achievements made in the measurement of human rights over the past four decades are equally applicable to the measurement of modern slavery.
T. Landman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time for Change: A call for urgent action to end the forced child begging of talibés in Senegal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
core   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Story-telling as memorialisation: Suffering, resilience and victim identities

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2020
Is there a relationship between story-telling and memorialisation in the construction of victim identities? This paper seeks to examine these questions and shed light on the cultural dynamics of victimisation with reference to examples from sociological ...
Simon Green   +2 more
doaj  

Lo schiavo al museo. Spunti di riflessione sul trattamento dei temi di schiavitù e tratta atlantica nei musei della Francia metropolitana

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2019
The theme of contemporary slavery is necessarily linked to the history of slavery, especially as a part of former colonialist countries’ past (and identity).
Veronica Landi
doaj   +1 more source

Les Lieux de Memoire and the Legacies of Roma Slavery in the Collective Memory. Case Study in Tismana, Gorj County, Romania

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2023
This article aims to analyse the content of the local collective memory regarding slavery in Tismana, the place of the first documentary attestation of “Gypsies” in Romanian territory as slaves.
Adrian-Nicolae Furtună
doaj   +1 more source

Do You Know About the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
core   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slavery and its definition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Had the abolitionists of the past, the likes of Abraham Lincoln or William Wilberforce, been able to see into the twenty-first century, what might have struck them as very strange was that while they had come far in ending slavery and suppressing human ...
Allain, Jean, Bales, Kevin
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