Consumer perspectives towards modern slavery

Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis and Deirdre Shaw

Chapter 4 in Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption, 2023, pp 51-69 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we explore the role of consumption in generating demand for goods and services that integrate slave labour within their production. We focus on perceptions of this slavery in the production-consumption systems that we (as consumers) routinely engage in, how we categorise slavery form other—legitimate—forms of work, and how we determine whether reparative action is warranted or, indeed, even possible. This action can be consumption or civic oriented. Finally, we draw on psycho-social perspectives to show how consumers engage in cognitive tactics of neutralisation and legitimation to dissipate feelings of guilt and responsibility, and to justify continuing consumption of the products of slavery.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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