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Everything Everywhere All at Once: Where is the “Modern Slavery” Agenda Heading?

By Pankhuri Agarwal and Sharmila Parmanand

Issue 33 // 13th October 2025

The modern slavery agenda has shifted from protecting workers’ rights to serving political and corporate interests through surveillance, border control, and spectacle, while ignoring the structural causes of exploitation. Read more of the article

Reflections and recommendations from the second U.K. Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

By Dame Sara Thornton

Issue 33 // 13th October 2025

Dame Sara Thornton warns that political neglect and the conflation of slavery with immigration have weakened victim protection and enforcement, calling for stronger business accountability, independent oversight, and preventive labour reforms. Read more of the article

Graves into Gardens

By Brandon Thomas

Issue 33 // 13th October 2025

Ending modern slavery requires seeing survivors as people first and embedding their lived experience, dignity, and leadership into laws, workplaces, and business practices. Read more of the article

Editorial

By Duncan U Fisher and Vanessa Beck

Issue 32 // 30th July 2025

This issue explores how continuity and change shape caring relationships, revealing a gap between the ideal of consistent care and the often fragmented realities faced by care providers and recipients across diverse settings. Read more of the article

Polly Morland’s A Fortunate Woman and care continuity in adult social care 

By Duncan U Fisher

Issue 32 // 30th July 2025

Duncan U. Fisher, discusses how Polly Morland’s' A Fortunate Woman' highlights the vital role of care continuity in healthcare and calls attention to its neglect in undervalued adult social care work. Read more of the article

Continuity and change in the homecare sector: A fine balance

By Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln and Rachel Kelso

Issue 32 // 30th July 2025

Rachel Kelso and Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln show how Domiciliary care work relies on building trusted relationships while navigating blurred boundaries, poor pay, and unstable conditions that undermine the continuity essential to quality care. Read more of the article

Client: Nancy S

By Julie Sansom

Issue 32 // 30th July 2025

Julie Sansom’s story of caring for Nancy reveals the deep bonds formed in homecare, the grief carers quietly endure, and the exploitative systems that deny them stability, support, and recognition. Read more of the article

Making ‘caring’ work for working carers

By Chandrima Roy and Katharine Venter

Issue 32 // 30th July 2025

Chandrima Roy and Katharine Venter examine how employers play a crucial yet often overlooked role in supporting unpaid working carers, whose growing importance amid the care crisis demands greater recognition, responsibility, and tailored workplace support. Read more of the article

Editorial: Spotlight on temporary migration in Canada 

By Blandine Emilien

Issue 31 // 15th April 2025

Canada’s temporary migration system fosters systemic worker vulnerability and modern slavery risks by tying migrants’ legal status to employer-specific permits and denying clear paths to permanent residence. Read more of the article

Why do companies abuse their foreign workers?

By Catherine Connelly

Issue 31 // 15th April 2025

Companies hire temporary foreign workers for reliability and productivity, but employer-specific work permits create power imbalances that enable mistreatment—an issue best addressed by granting open work permits to protect workers’ rights and mobility Read more of the article