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The contemporary movement to fight "modern slavery" has increasingly turned its attention to issues of forced labor, child labor and labor trafficking in a wide variety of industries and supply cha...
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  • 03 February 2026
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The contemporary movement to fight "modern slavery" has increasingly turned its attention to issues of forced labor, child labor and labor trafficking in a wide variety of industries and supply chains. At the same time, businesses have become more involved with the movement and their leadership has been touted as a better alternative to the assumed inferiority of civil society responses. How has business influence been playing out in the "anti-slavery" movement and what are the implications for international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) fighting these forms of labor exploitation? Based on interviews, online texts, documents, and media content from a variety of INGOs and other organizations in Europe and the United States fighting these problems, Advocacy, Inc. provides a cautionary case study. "Anti-slavery" advocacy has become a new market in which INGOs are pressed to become increasingly like for-profit businesses and the strategies they pursue do not adequately address the driving forces that have created conditions for continued labor exploitation in the global economy. Moreover, some businesses benefit from this scenario, having to do very little to claim 'hero' status in advocacy efforts, while practices that perpetuate labor exploitation continue unabated.

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Price: $30.00
Pages: 244
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781503644823
Format: Paperback
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Stephanie A. Limoncelli is Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of The Politics of Trafficking (Stanford, 2010).
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Framing "Modern Slavery" as a Business Enterprise
2. Using "Good" Business to Fight "Bad" Business
3. Fraught Collaborations and Business-Friendly Strategies
4. Technological "Fixes" for Complex Problems
5. Communicating Like a Business: Branding and Marketing "Anti-Slavery" INGOs
6. Making INGO Operations and Structures More Business-Like
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index