Labour exploitation and work-based harm / Sam Scott.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-267) and index.

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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.

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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