Genevieve LeBaron - Combatting Modern Slavery

1 Title page Combatting Modern Slavery Why Labour Governance Is Failing and What We Can Do About It Genevieve LeBaron polity

2 Copyright page

3 Acknowledgements

4 1 Who Does Labour Governance Work For?

5 2 Labour Exploitation in Global Supply Chains

6 3 Corporate Power and the State

7 4 The Recruitment Industry

8 5 The Enforcement Industry

9 6 Protecting Twenty-First-Century Workers

10 Index

11 End User License Agreement

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Genevieve LeBaron

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Copyright © Genevieve LeBaron 2020

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First published in 2020 by Polity Press

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Names: LeBaron, Genevieve, author.

Title: Combatting modern slavery : why labour governance is failing and what we can do about it / Genevieve LeBaron.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A compelling exposé of the failings of corporate anti-slavery initiatives”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020000089 (print) | LCCN 2020000090 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509513666 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509513673 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509513703 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Forced labor. | Slavery--Prevention. | Employee rights. | Labor laws and legislation.

Classification: LCC HD4871 .L43 2020 (print) | LCC HD4871 (ebook) | DDC 331.11/73--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000089

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While writing this book, I have benefited from dozens of conversations with colleagues and friends. My special thanks go to, in no particular order: Andrew Crane, David Blight, Tim Bartley, Janie Chuang, Luc Fransen, Jennifer Clapp, Daniel Mügge, Claire Cutler, Jane Lister, Ben Cashore, Elena Shih, Nicola Phillips, Vivek Soundararajan, Laura Spence, V. Spike Peterson, Jamie Peck, Michael Bloomfield, Peter Dauvergne, Mark Anner, John Hobson, Scott Nova and Brian Burgoon. Extra special thanks go to J. J. Rosenbaum for her detailed and incisive suggestions on a draft of Chapter 4, and Penelope Kyritsis and Tom Hunt for their excellent insights on a draft of the full manuscript. I am also grateful to two anonymous Polity reviewers for their helpful feedback.

My colleagues and friends at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), especially fellow members of our Corporations Reading Group, have made writing this book exciting and a less lonely task than it would have been otherwise. They helped me to sharpen ideas and tackle parts of the global economy that I wouldn’t otherwise have been bold enough to write about. Thanks especially to Andrew Gamble, Colin Hay, Andreas Rühmkorf, Michael Jacobs, Scott Lavery, Jon Gamu, Liam Stanley, Andrew Hindmoor, Tony Payne, Owen Parker, Natalie Langford, Ellie Gore, Remi Edwards, Ed Pemberton, Patrick Kaczmarczyk and Charline Sempéré. I feel lucky to have such wonderful colleagues who reciprocate my enthusiasm for researching labour and corporations.