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Book SynopsisBy 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, fe
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors Acknowledgements 1: Genevieve LeBaron: Introduction Part I: Surveying the Gaps 2: Andrew Crane & Genevieve LeBaron: Methodological Challenges in the Business of Forced Labour 3: Nicola Phillips: The Politics of Numbers: Beyond Methodological Challenges in Research on Forced Labour 4: Joel Quirk: The Politics of Forced Labour Research: NGOs, Activists, and States 5: Jean Allain: What Is Forced Labour? A Practical Guide for Humanities and Social Science Research 6: Sam Okyere: Confronting Bias in Ngo Research on Modern Slavery Part II: Frontiers of Forced Labour Research and Methods 7: Neil Howard: Why (and How) We Need To Talk To 'The Victims' 8: Jenny Chan: Researching Unfree Student Labour in Apple's Supply Chain 9: Andreas Rühmkorf: Transparent Companies? Legal Research Strategies to Understand Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains 10: Robert Caruana: The Role of Discourse Analysis in Researching Severe Labour Exploitation 11: Jessica Pliley: Archival Trouble: Researching Sex Trafficking In Early Twentieth-Century America
