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Private Governance and the Problem of Trafficking and Slavery in Global Supply Chains

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On 1 January 2012, innovative legislation came into force in the US state of California. The Transparency in Supply Chains (TISC) Act focuses attention on the problem of human trafficking in global supply chains,1 seeking to encourage large firms doing business in California to take the issue of trafficking seriously and obliging them to report on the steps that they are taking in this direction. The focus on supply chains was also central to US President Barack Obama’s major statement on traf­ficking in September 2012, in which he announced a series of measures which aimed to ‘eradicate’ these worst forms of labour exploitation from the global economy, both by encouraging action on the part of firms and by putting in place rules relating to government procurement processes. In 2014, a Bill which aimed to transpose the substance of this legislation to the federal level was introduced in Congress.2

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Leeds, UK

    Louise Waite (Associate Professor of Human Geography) (Associate Professor of Human Geography)

  2. University of Durham, UK

    Gary Craig (Professor of Social Justice) (Professor of Social Justice)

  3. University of Sheffield, UK

    Hannah Lewis (Vice Chancellor’s Fellow) (Vice Chancellor’s Fellow)

  4. Anti-Slavery International, UK

    Klara Skrivankova (Europe Programme and Advocacy Coordinator) (Europe Programme and Advocacy Coordinator)

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Phillips, N. (2015). Private Governance and the Problem of Trafficking and Slavery in Global Supply Chains. In: Waite, L., Craig, G., Lewis, H., Skrivankova, K. (eds) Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460417_2

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