Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy - Methodological Challenges and Advances (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Proceedings of the British Academy, 220
Release date:	December 2018
Editors:	Genevieve LeBaron (Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI))
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-726647-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Employment & labour law
LSN:	0-19-726647-9
Barcode:	9780197266472

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