David Strecker presents a paper on 'Slavery as Exclusive Inclusion'

Identifying slavery only with chattel slavery obscures how fundamental factors which allowed for the latter remain effective today in that they buttress contemporary slavery. Only an integrative framework for analyzing the different forms of slavery sheds light on connections, on continuities, on the transformation of practices and institutions. The claim this paper sets forth is that an underlying logic connecting the different forms of slavery continues to be at work today. I suggest that slavery is best understood as exclusive inclusion. The argument which aims to elucidate this concept proceeds in three steps: first I turn to the established attempts to define slavery; this leads me to introduce the concept of exclusive inclusion which sheds light on the historical development of slavery; and finally I will look at the implications of this concept for general social theory and the political struggle to overcome slavery by focusing on how it bears on our understanding of social reproduction.