A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo‐Liberal Globalization and the International Labour Organization

Lerche, Jens

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2007.00152.x

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“…(Lerche, 2011, p. 16) Banaji therefore argues that all wage labour is 'more-or-less coerced'/'more-orless free ' (2003, p. 80). Such a perspective accords with the work of Lerche (2007Lerche ( , 2011, LeBaron (2015) and Phillips (2013) who also reject the free/ unfree binary, instead construing 'free' and unfree labour as part of a continuum of labour relations based on degree rather than binary opposition. This continuum is not pre-set but rather evolves with the processes which influence it, including for example changes to legal, gender and labour relations.…”

Section: Hyper-precarity and The Continuum Of 'Unfreedom'mentioning

confidence: 62%

“…Conversely, 'free wage labour is viewed as the consensual exchange of non-exploited labour power between equals in response to market forces' (Cruz, 2018, p. 68). Lerche (2007) contends that the ILO's strategy in 'cocooning' forced labour issues from other labour practices depoliticizes forced labour and isolates the issue as an 'unnatural' element of capitalism. In doing so, the ILO is able to maintain 'safe' relationships with governments and run anti-forced labour programmes.…”

Section: Hyper-precarity and The Continuum Of 'Unfreedom'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unfree labour in immigration detention: exploitation and coercion of a captive immigrant workforce

Bales

Mayblin

2018

Economy and Society

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Section: Hyper-precarity and The Continuum Of 'Unfreedom'mentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Hyper-precarity and The Continuum Of 'Unfreedom'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Unfree labour in immigration detention: exploitation and coercion of a captive immigrant workforce

Bales

Mayblin

2018

Economy and Society

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“…By contrast with the sustained attention to poverty, there is a conspicuous failure to engage with the big questions of capitalism and globalization, which receive only passing attention in the ILO's major statements on forced labour (Lerche 2007;Rogaly 2008). The issues of relevance to our later discussion are mentioned in the 2005 Global Alliance report, and indeed in subsequent statements, but the tone is tentative:…”

Section: The Contours Of Governance Debates On Forced Labourmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Governance of Forced Labour in the Global Economy

Phillips

Mieres

2014

Globalizations

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Abstract:The problem of forced labour in the contemporary global economy is attracting increasing attention in global governance debates and policy circles. The effectiveness of governance initiatives depends on underlying understandings of the root causes of the problem. We explore how the root causes of forced labour in global production networks (GPNs) are framed in global governance debates. Focusing on the dominant frameworks mobilized by international institutions, with some attention to cognate national-level and corporate governance strategies, we identify the limitations of dominant interpretations, which derive from their 'residual' character and their associated neglect of the manner in which the roots of forced labour reach deeply into the organization of GPNs, the forms of exploitation which are integral to them, and the connections between exploitation and poverty. We set out an alternative, 'relational' perspective on the roots of forced labour in GPNs, based on the concept of 'adverse incorporation', and consider the implications of the insights generated by this perspective for contemporary governance frameworks.

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“…While some scholars therefore reject terms such as forced, unfree or "slave" labor altogether, many hold that unfree labor represents one end of a spectrum of exploitation (see Lerche 2007). Building on this, a multidimensional view may allow for an assessment of different types of (un)freedom as well as different conditions of work (McGrath 2013a).…”

Section: Critical Studies Of Unfree Labormentioning

confidence: 99%