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Policy and Practice: Claiming Space for Labour Rights within the United Kingdom Modern Slavery Crusade

September 2015

The focus of this article is on advocacy opportunities provided by the anti-trafficking framework in a new political climate. Through the case study of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 deliberations the article explores opportunities to use political interest in human trafficking to advocate labour rights and protections for vulnerable workers. The article explores how, largely cynical, political motivations for the debate on ‘modern slavery’ in the UK, provided an opportunity to reframe the anti-trafficking discourse in this context.

Policy and Practice: Claiming Space for Labour Rights within the United Kingdom Modern Slavery Crusade