ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces researchers and practitioners to the issue of slavery and its links to organizations. It starts by presenting an overview of how slavery has been defined and studied in management and organizational research, as well as the broader social sciences and humanities. It then presents a simple model of slavery and its links to organizations that is designed to help researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and members of society attain a basic understanding of how slavery is linked to organizations today. From there it discusses the implications of slavery and the model in light of the prior research on slavery, this book’s focus on violence and abuse in the workplace, and where we need to go next in order to address the issue of slavery.
