Combatting the Business of Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains

By jb94|November 17, 2016|East Asia, Europe, Global, Middle East, North America, South Asia, Southeast Asia|0 comments

By Genevieve LeBaron. Genevieve is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield and Co-Chair of the Modern Slavery Working Group at Yale University. She currently holds a British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences Rising Star Engagement Award and a UK Economic and Social Research Council Future Research Leaders grant to investigate the global business models of forced labour.She has held visiting positions at Yale University, University

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Brewing Trouble in New York

By jb94|November 1, 2016|North America|0 comments

By Kira Brenner. Kira studied the MSc in Labour, Social Movements and Development at SOAS in 2014-2015. She is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Development Studies, researching the Tunisian trade union movement since the Arab Spring. The views expressed in this article are Kira’s own, and don’t necessarily reflect the views of the SOAS Department of Development Studies. I wake with a jolt at 3:30am. My two-model out

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