Description: 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. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Brief description: Hila Shamir is a Professor of Law at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. Shamir teaches and researches in the fields of Employment, Labour, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of labor trafficking, and feminist legal thought. Shamir has taught at Cornell Law School, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Shamir received two European Research Council (ERC) grants. The first was provided to pursue research on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking and is the PI of TraffLab (www.trafflab.org). The second, to fund a project that will begin in September 2024 titled "ChainGE Lab: Labor Law for a Global Value Chain Economy." She is also the recipient of an Israel Science Foundation Grant to pursue research on GVC governance geared to limiting severe forms of labor market exploitation. She is also the recipient of several additional grants including a Fulbright Scholarship, the EU Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, and of research grants from the Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.