Main content

Sex Trafficking - Hunger

Laurie Taylor explores a new study of the history of hunger, from the famines of the 19th century to the Jarrow March with Professors James Vernon and Joanna Bourke.

SEX TRAFFICKING
Laura María Agustin talks about her latest book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry and exposes the myths surrounding ‘human trafficking’.

HUNGER
In the 18th century political economists like Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus encouraged the view that the hungry were responsible for their own hunger, through being lazy, morally degenerate, and incapable of keeping their family size down. Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor James Vernon, author of new book Hunger, a modern history and Joanna Bourke Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London to discuss our attitudes past and present towards hunger.

Available now

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Dec 2007 00:15

Broadcasts

  • Wed 12 Dec 2007 16:00
  • Mon 17 Dec 2007 00:15

Explore further with The Open University

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Thinking Allowed is produced in partnership with The Open University

Download this programme

Subscribe to this programme or download individual episodes.

Podcast