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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.
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Acknowledgements
1: Genevieve LeBaron: Introduction
Part I: Surveying the Gaps
2: Andrew Crane and 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
