Between decent work and forced labour: examining the continuum of exploitation

This paper was commissioned as part of JRF’s programme on forced labour, which aims to influence the development of policy and practice to reduce forced labour in the UK. The paper: examines how forced labour is currently framed within national legislations; introduces a continuum of exploitation and interventions, ranging from decent work to extreme exploitation and covering both labour law and criminal law; and uses case studies to demonstrate how the concept of a continuum can be applied in practice …