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Constructing Modern Slavery investigates the complex relationship between law, capitalism, and unfree labor in the contemporary world. Judy Fudge provides a critical analysis of how legal systems, rather than preventing exploitation, often facilitate and legitimize various forms of forced and coerced work. The book examines multiple contexts where workers lack genuine freedom, including migrant labor, domestic work, and supply chain exploitation.
Drawing on interdisciplinary research and case studies, Fudge demonstrates how capitalist structures combined with inadequate or complicit legal frameworks enable modern slavery to persist. She challenges traditional definitions of slavery and argues that contemporary unfree labor extends beyond physical bondage to include economic coercion and systemic marginalization. This work is essential for understanding how exploitation operates within legal and economic systems in the 21st century.
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