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A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the possibility he may also have understood the story as speaking to the cause of ending slavery in the US.

From ancient slavery to the factory floor, progress has often relied on the exploitation of human beings. We might like to believe those days are well behind us. But in the digital age, AI and the metaverse risk repeating that pattern with new forms of invisible labour and inequality.

Bloomfield firefighter Patrick Thomas has filed a federal civil rights suit seeking approximately £19 million ($25 million), alleging a colleague handed him a tied noose during training and that the department failed to act.

Between NIN’s Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral came Trent Reznor’s most extreme artistic statement

Improper analogue to support ban on arms on private property open to the public.

Helpline run by Unseen receives hundreds of calls a year from potential victims of exploitation

On first official visit to UK, group calls for mutually beneficial programme to clean up ‘mess’ left by colonialism

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading researchers. Along the way, we’ll visit locations important to Austen to uncover a…

Long before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, beginning early in the 19th century, Americans had been fighting a protracted war of words over slavery.