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Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy - Methodological Challenges and Advances (Hardcover)
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Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy - Methodological Challenges and Advances (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy, 220
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By most accounts, forced labour, human trafficking, and modern
slavery are thriving in the global economy. Recent media reports -
including the discovery of widespread trafficking in Thailand's
shrimp industry, forced labour in global tea and cocoa supply
chains, and the devastating deaths of workers constructing stadiums
for Qatar's World Cup- have brought once hidden exploitation into
the mainstream spotlight. As public concern about forced labour has
escalated, governments around the world have begun to enact
legislation to combat it in global production. Yet, in spite of
soaring media and policy attention, reliable research on the
business of forced labour remains difficult to come by. Forced
labour is notoriously challenging to investigate, given that it is
illegal, and powerful corporations and governments are reluctant to
grant academics access to their workers and supply chains. Given
the risk associated with researching the business of forced labour,
until very recently, few scholars even attempted to collect hard or
systematic data. Instead, academics have often had little choice
but to rely on poor quality second-hand data, frequently generated
by activists and businesses with vested interests in portraying the
problem in a certain light. As a result, the evidence base on
contemporary forced labour is both dangerously thin and riddled
with bias. Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy gathers
an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to tackle this
problem. It provides the first, comprehensive, scholarly account of
forced labour's role in the contemporary global economy and
reflections on the methodologies used to generate this research.
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