Modern slavery: The neoliberal UK model

Wilkinson, Mick

Abstract

Despite having ratified a range of international conventions prohibiting forced labour and modern slavery, and committing to protect their victims, successive UK governments have failed to adequately meet their responsibilities in these regards. That is in part because a cross-party political obsession with market ‘flexibility’ has created the conditions in which such abuses flourish and in part because the machinery of labour standards enforcement has been allowed to wither on the vine.

Citation

Wilkinson, M. (2018). Modern slavery: The neoliberal UK model. The Socialist Correspondent, 31(18), 15-17

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2018
• Online Publication Date: May 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Jun 6, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jul 11, 2019
• Journal: The Socialist Correspondent
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 15-17
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/2178758
• Publisher URL: http://www.thesocialistcorrespondent.org.uk/articles/modern-slavery-the-neoliberal-uk-model/