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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Labour exploitation and work-based harm
  name:
    name part: Scott, Sam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : illustration
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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?
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Sam Scott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-267) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Forced labor
  subject:
    topic: Travail forcé
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Labor & Industrial Relations
  subject:
    topic: Forced labor
  classification: HD4871 .S36 2017eb
  classification: 331.1173
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in social harm
  identifier: 1447322061
  identifier: 9781447322061
  identifier: 9781447322054
  identifier: 1447322053
  identifier: 144732207X
  identifier: 1447322037
  identifier: 1002468 MIL
  identifier: 22573/ctt1t6x0g6 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1t892vm
  record info:
    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 170321
    record change date: 20220513221114.8
    record identifier: in00004575652
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng