September 13-14, 2021
Workshop
Virtual Format, Via Zoom
Conference session times are listed on the Event Poster: British Summer Time
Event Poster (English)
Summary
In this workshop, authors of the forthcoming book “Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains” will present their chapters. This is this group’s second meeting following a conference we held in New Delhi in November 2019 titled “Human Trafficking and Supply Chains.”
Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains (Edited Collection):
Book proposed for the Cambridge University Press Book Series: Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains. Series eds. Stephanie Barrientos, Gary Gereffi, Dev Nathan, and John Pickles.
Book editors: Hila Shamir, TraffLab (ERC) and Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (Israel); Bimal Arora, PROGRESS Project (IDRC) and Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (UK); and Shilpi Banerjee, American University in Dubai (UAE) and PROGRESS Project (IDRC).
Links to Recorded Conference Sessions:
September 13, 2021
Hila Shamir, Tel Aviv University, PI TraffLab (ERC)
Author: Ioannis Kampourakis, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Discussant: Klaas Hendrik Eller, Amsterdam University
Women, Human Trafficking and Global Value Chains: Why We Need to Move Beyond Corporate Responsibility Projects Towards a Regulated Corporate Purpose
Author: Roseanne Russell, University of Bristol
Discussant: Sahiba Gill, NYU School of Law
Anti-Trafficking Chains: From Transparency Legislation to Worker Driven Social Responsibility
Authors: Tamar Barkay, Tel Hai Academic College and Hila Shamir, Tel Aviv University, PI TraffLab (ERC)
Discussant: Ioannis Kampourakis, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Closing Remarks and some words in memory of the late Varsha Joshi
Dev Nathan, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
September 14, 2021
Discussant: Bimal Arora, Manchester Metropolitan University, PI PROGRESS Project
Focus on Mathadi (Headloaders) Workers Boards, Maharashtra (India)
Authors: Chandan Kumar and Chinmanyi Naik, Working People’s Charter
Discussant: Hila Shamir, Tel Aviv University, PI TraffLab (ERC)
Human Supply Chain as Global Value Chain: Employer Control in Nepal-GCC Labour Recruitment
Author: Sahiba Gill, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Shilpi Banerjee, American University in Dubai and PROGRESS Project
Action on Child Labour: Comparing Global and Domestic Garment Production Value Chains
Authors: Dev Nathan and Varsha Joshi (Late), Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
Discussant: Roseanne Russell, University of Bristol
The Complexities of Construction Labour in India and the Incoherence of Labour Regulations
Authors: Saie Shetye, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Divya Priyadarshini, University of Delhi
Discussant: Dev Nathan, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
The Business of Modern Slavery in Global Value Chains: The Case of the Indian Mica Mining Sector
Authors: Shilpi Banerjee, American University in Dubai and PROGRESS Project and b, PI PROGRESS Project, Manchester Metropolitan University
Discussant: Tamar Barkay, Tel Hai Academic College
Shilpi Banerjee, American University in Dubai and PROGRESS Project
Bimal Arora, Manchester Metropolitan University, PI PROGRESS Project
Hila Shamir, Tel Aviv University, PI TraffLab (ERC)