Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• LeBaron, Genevieve[Herausgeber]
• Pliley, Jessica R[Herausgeber]
• Blight, David W[Herausgeber]

Titel

Fighting modern slavery and human trafficking : history and contemporary policy

Ist Teil von

• Slaveries since emancipation

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• "Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human trafficking has become a cause célèbre. Policies to fight modern slavery are championed by right- and left-wing governments. Multi-national corporations host panels about fighting modern slavery at the World Economic Forum, United Nations summits, and rock music festivals. A motley civil society coalition of anti-slavery activists, students, churches, and conservative antifeminist organizations have banded together to eradicate slavery with an arsenal ranging from "slave raids" to awareness-raising campaigns. This coalition has spent billions of dollars on projects that promise to end slavery in our lifetime"--