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- Title
The Business of Abolition: Marketizing 'Anti‐slavery'.
- Authors
McGrath, Siobhan; Mieres, Fabiola
- Abstract
This article conceptualizes contemporary abolitionism as a commodifying cause characterized by multiple processes of marketization. It demonstrates how concerns about the unethical commodification of labour form the basis of a variety of marketization projects and processes. Three processes of marketization in this arena are identified: making relations of advocacy and activism more market‐like; seeking to rehabilitate and/or reform markets in the face of 'supply chain slavery'; and pursuing abolitionism through commodification. Drawing on project data, and supplemented with empirical observations, interventions to address 'slavery', human trafficking and/or forced labour in supply chains are identified and analysed. Marketization is employed as a lens to understand the diverse field of contemporary abolitionism and its relationships to (ideas of) the market. The article highlights how ongoing efforts to reconcile 'slavery' and the market posit ethical markets as the solution to the unethical commodification of labour. These efforts are marked by tensions and contradictions, however, necessitating discursive work to position 'slavery' as emerging from outside the market.
- Subjects
FORCED labor; HUMAN trafficking; ANTISLAVERY movements; SUPPLY chains; COMMODIFICATION; SLAVERY
- Publication
Development & Change, 2022, Vol 53, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0012-155X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dech.12701