Lovely quote on why we need social theory and historical understanding, (though I would replace economics with sociology here…).
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A Consumer Society of the spectacle and the invisible: or, did a coerced labourer make the clothes on your back? - ARU
Find out about and sign up for CROWC's seminar online and at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on 5 February.
ARU's is hosting a research seminar by Professor Alan Bradshaw on 5th February, 16-17.00. The talk promises theoretical and empirical insights into labour exploitation in global supply chains, with their flows of disinformation and denial. Politically and practically important for all of us:
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