ABSTRACT
Slavery has many faces and encompasses a wide range of socioeconomic practices of unfree labour. Slavery means denial of subject status of persons and their reduction to objects of possession. As any form of slavery, bonded labour involves denial of status as a full human being and reduces labourers to possessions and means of labour, which can be described as a process of de-humanisation. Slavery is always connected with some kind of power imbalance: that is why it can be argued that the fight against slavery is the fight against these unequal power relations that lead to de-humanisation of people and denial of their subject status. It seems that the success of this fight is directly connected with the ability of anti-slavery programmes to address various levels and dimensions of power simultaneously. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
