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Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains

Edited by: Hila Shamir, Bimal Arora, Shilpi Banerjee, Tamar Barkay

ISBN13: 9781009591119
To be Published: March 2026
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
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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.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties, International Trade
Contents:
Foreword
Kailash Satyarthi
Introduction
Hila Shamir, Bimal Arora, Shilpi Banerjee and Tamar Barkay

Part I. Law and Governance:
1. The Information Architecture of Corporate Accountability. Inside Corporate Reporting Regimes in Global Value Chains
Klaas H. Eller
2. Transparency Legislation in Global Value Chains: Decentralisation, Market Power, and Global Hierarchies
Ioannis Kampourakis
3. Tackling Forced Labour in Global Value Chains: What Role for Trade Instruments?
Franz Christian Ebert, Francesca Francavilla and Lorenzo Guarcello
4. Human Rights Due Diligence and Modern Slavery
Shelley Marshall and Ingrid Landau
Part II. Actors:
5. Anti-Trafficking Chains in GVCs: Corporate Transparency Legislation and Worker Driven Social Responsibility
Tamar Barkay and Hila Shamir
6. Directors' Duties and Decision-Making in Global Value Chains
Roseanne Russell
7. Re-Centring the Debates on 'Modern Slavery' and 'Trafficking': Evidence from 'Workers' Mobilisations' in the Indian Context
Lorena Arocha, Roshni Chattopadhyay, Bindhulakshmi Pattadath and Meena Gopal
8. Human Supply Chain as Global Value Chain: Employer Control in Nepal-GCC Labour Recruitment
Sahiba Gill

Part III. Sectors:
9. Child Labour in Value Chains: Regulating Demand and Ending Supply
Dev Nathan and Varsha Joshi
10. The Complexities of Construction Labour in India and the Invisibility of Labourers from the Global Value Chain
Saie Shetye and Divya Priyadarshini
11. Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Child Slavery in Global Value Chains & Corporate Responsibility in the Indian Mica Mining Industry
Shilpi Banerjee and Bimal Arora