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This book provides a critical understanding of contemporary forced labour as a global social problem and argues that it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Sam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Colección:Studies in social harm.
Temas:
Forced labor.
Travail forcé.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Forced labor
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • LABOUR EXPLOITATION AND WORK-BASED HARM
  • Contents
  • List of poems
  • Lists of figures, tables and boxes
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Boxes
  • List of abbreviations
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • I am a human being
  • 1. Introduction
  • Defining the issues: determining the language
  • A social harm perspective
  • Data sources
  • Outline of the book
  • Equals
  • 2. The labour exploitation continuum
  • Fatalities at work
  • Fatalities through work
  • Non-fatal work-based harm
  • Chattel slavery
  • Modern slavery
  • Forced labour
  • Human trafficking
  • Child labour
  • Above the criminal-legal baselines
  • Conclusion
  • The manager
  • 3. Lessons of history
  • Widespread social stratification
  • Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
  • Victim blaming
  • Controlling the poor and the unemployed
  • Limiting compensation
  • Restrained resistance
  • Social movements
  • Worker empowerment and collective action
  • Conclusion
  • War alarm
  • 4. Direct workplace controls
  • Workplace control
  • Taylorism and scientific management
  • New management
  • Targets, monitoring and surveillance
  • Job insecurity
  • Bullying and mobbing22
  • Excessive hours
  • Conclusion
  • The coffee maker
  • 5. Indirect workplace controls
  • Network-based control
  • Labour market intermediaries
  • Poverty and debt
  • Norms, expectations and workplace cultures
  • Disciplining by proxy
  • Management by bureaucracy
  • Conclusion
  • The black eye
  • 6. Exogenous controls
  • Reduced ontological security
  • Entrenched inequality
  • Political-legal constraints
  • Socio-cultural controls
  • Human enhancements
  • Conclusion
  • 'Sitting down, you can do on your own time'
  • 7. Navigating the edges of acceptability
  • Evidence of worker consent?
  • Exploitative or 'decent quality' work?
  • Evidence of harm?
  • Evidence of knowledge, intent or motives?
  • Evidence of legal exemptions?
  • Conclusion
  • Terrified animals
  • 8. Preventing exploitation and harm
  • Documenting or preventing exploitation and harm?
  • Baselines: transnational governance
  • Baselines: national legal frameworks
  • Baselines: labour inspection regimes
  • Varieties of capitalism: harm reduction regimes
  • Varieties of capitalism: corporate structures
  • Capital-labour relations: trade unions
  • Capital-labour relations: worker inequality47
  • Capital-labour relations: social movements
  • Conclusion
  • We
  • 9. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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