Modern Slavery

Julia O'Connell Davidson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include employment relations, sex work, childhood, migration, trafficking and slavery, and she is author of Children in the Global Sex Trade (2005), Prostitution, Power and Freedom (1998), and Privatization and Employment Relations (1993).

• 1. Imagining Modernity, Forgetting Slavery 2. Marking the Boundaries of Slavery 3. Slavery and Wage Labour: Freedom and its Doubles 4. Mastery, Race, and Nation: Prisons and Borders as Transatlantic Slavery's Living Legacies 5. Mobility, Domination, Escape and the State: 'Trafficking' as a modern Slave Trade 6. State authorized Mobility, Slavery, and Forced Labour 7. Slaves and Wives: A Question of Consent 8. Happy Endings?

“It is a beautiful example of interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences scholarship. Davidson’s work should push us to move across disciplinary boundaries to improve the quality and broaden the audience of our work. … it would be a worthwhile addition to any undergraduate- or graduate-level seminar on slavery. … This compelling, persuasive, and confident book does the important work of showing that scholars can bring historical scholarship into conversation with contemporary issues.” (Whitney Stewart, H-Slavery, networks.h-net.org, July, 2017)“This book is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the complex discursive histories of the anti-trafficking movement, and it will be of great interest to the readers of Border Criminologies.” (Ilse van Liempt, Border Criminologies, law.ox.ac.uk, January, 2017)