Books: Dutch graphic novel telling ‘hidden’ slavery story gets first English translation

Student project brings Quaco’s tale to wider audience

Project highlights horrors of an inhuman trade

The story of an 18th Century African boy abducted into slavery, told as a Dutch-language graphic novel has gained its first English translation, courtesy of students at a Yorkshire university

Society: Scandal of forced labour in UK food industry

Towards a very model of ‘progressive’ employment practice

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has uncovered evidence of forced labour in the UK’s food industry. While this malpractice is surely shocking, Mark Cantrell can’t help but wonder if this represents a model for future labour relations…