Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains

Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the links between Global Value Chains (GVCs) governance, regulation, and vulnerability to severe forms of labour market exploitation by focusing on governance initiatives that seek to induce corporate action to end or mitigate modern slavery. The book brings together chapters by scholars from developed, developing, and emerging economies and from various disciplines to explore the complex relationship between global and local patterns of production and consumption, and severe forms of labour market exploitation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Hila Shamir is a Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. Shamir teaches and researches in the fields of Employment, Labour, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of labor trafficking, and feminist legal thought. Shamir has taught at Cornell Law School, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Shamir received two European Research Council (ERC) grants. The first was provided to pursue research on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking and is the PI of TraffLab (www.trafflab.org). The second, to fund a project that will begin in September 2024 titled "ChainGE Lab: Labor Law for a Global Value Chain Economy." She is also the recipient of an Israel Science Foundation Grant to pursue research on GVC governance geared to limiting severe forms of labor market exploitation. She is also the recipient of several additional grants including a Fulbright Scholarship, the EU Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, and of research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.

Bimal Arora (Late) was the founding CEO and Director of Centre for Responsible Business (CRB), which he established to facilitate participation of Indian actors in voluntary global governance for sustainability, and Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Driven by his vision, CRB has been established as key actor in the Indian and global landscape of CSR and sustainability. To contribute to the contemporary debates and facilitate participation of emerging economy actors in voluntary global governance, Bimal conceptualized an international Multi-stakeholder Dialogues Platform and Conference 'India and Sustainability Standards: International Dialogues and Conference' (www.sustainabilitystandards.in) in 2013, which attracts partnerships from over 60 international organizations, high-profile international speakers and participation of over 700 delegates every year in November. He was the Chair of the dialogue platform and the conference since 2014. After handing over the executive leadership, Bimal continued to serve as the Honorary Chairperson of CRB. Before his most recent academic position in Manchester Metropolitan University, he was a faculty member at Aston Business School and Joint Director of Aston India Centre for Applied Research (AICAR) and Adjunct Faculty at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), the University of Manchester, UK. He also held a Visiting Research Fellow position at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) at Nottingham University Business School, and fellowship of Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative of UNDP. His active policy, teaching and research interests were in the areas of political economy of CSR and sustainability, global governance, ethical trade, sustainability standards, multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), and collaborative sustainability partnerships and initiatives. Bimal had extensive experience of over 25 years across diverse sectors and has published in academic journals and busine

Shilpi Banerjee is Senior Research Fellow at Hult Impact Labs, Hult International Business School, Dubai. She has more than 15 years of experience in academic teaching, research, and management across higher education institutions in India, Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK, and the UAE. Her research explores the changing roles and responsibilities of business in the global economy, finding new ways of thinking about and practicing responsible business, with a particular focus on CSR communication, modern slavery, and socio-economic inequalities. Shilpi holds a Ph.D. in Business Management from the University of London, UK.

Tamar Barkay is a lecturer at the Multidisciplinary department at Tel Hai College. Tamar holds a PhD and MA in Sociology and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Politics and Philosophy also from Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include states, markets and societies relations in recent decades; rating and ranking practices and current modes of subjectivity; and labour governance in global supply chainstransnational supply chains. Her work has explored ethnographically the rise of new forms of non-state governance and in particular the implications of the popularisation of 'corporate responsibility'.