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Genevieve LeBaron is a new Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, and the Principle Investigator of the ReStructure Lab. In this episode, Am and Genevieve discuss her research work on forced labour and the global market forces which incentivize those practices. They also discuss the new role for public policy in solving real-world solutions as well as the unique context of the School of Public Policy at SFU and its broader impact.Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/178-genevieve-lebaron.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/178-genevieve-lebaron.htmlResources:Meet Genevieve LeBaron, School of Public Policy’s New Director: https://www.sfu.ca/mpp/news-events/news/welcome-genevieve-lebaron.htmlGenevieve LeBaron: https://www.genevievelebaron.com/aboutReStructure Lab: https://www.restructurelab.org/Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1056492621994904Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00187267221081296The Unequal Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Garment Supply Chains: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Unequal-Impacts-of-Covid-19-on-Global-Garment-Supply-Chains.pdfBio:Genevieve LeBaron is a Professor and Director, School of Public Policy, at Simon Fraser University's Vancouver campus.Her award-winning research investigates the business of forced labour in global supply chains and the effectiveness of government, industry, and worker-led strategies to combat it.  Her latest books are Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It (Polity Press, 2020, Winner of the Academy of Management SIM Division’s Best Book Prize) and Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2021, co-edited with David W. Blight and Jessica Pliley). She is the author of over forty academic journal articles and book chapters.LeBaron is Co-Principal Investigator of Re:Structure Lab, a research and policy Lab based across SFU School of Public Policy, Stanford and Yale Universities. Her research has attracted funding from several councils and foundations, including: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); The British Academy; Ford Foundation; Leverhulme Trust; and Humanity United. LeBaron has was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. Drawing from her research, LeBaron works closely with governments, United Nations agencies, global companies and others to build measures to prevent forced labour directly into their business models and supply chain relationships. She currently serves on the UK Parliament’s Modern Slavery and the Supply Chain Advisory Committee.Cite this episode:Chicago StyleJohal, Am. “Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and the Global Supply Chain — with Genevieve LeBaron” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 28, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/178-genevieve-lebaron.html.

Genevieve LeBaron is a new Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, and the Principle Investigator of the ReStructure Lab. In this episode, Am and Genevieve discuss her research work on forced labour and the global market forces which incentivize those practices. They also discuss the new role for public policy in solving real-world solutions as well as the unique context of the School of Public Policy at SFU and its broader impact. Full episode details: <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/178-genevieve-lebaron.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/178-genevieve-lebaron.html</a> Read the transcript: <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/178-genevieve-lebaron.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/178-genevieve-lebaron.html</a> Resources: Meet Genevieve LeBaron, School of Public Policy’s New Director: <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/mpp/news-events/news/welcome-genevieve-lebaron.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sfu.ca/mpp/news-events/news/welcome-genevieve-lebaron.html</a> Genevieve LeBaron: <a href="https://www.genevievelebaron.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.genevievelebaron.com/about</a> ReStructure Lab: <a href="https://www.restructurelab.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.restructurelab.org/</a> Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1056492621994904" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1056492621994904</a> Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00187267221081296" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00187267221081296</a> The Unequal Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Garment Supply Chains: <a href="http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Unequal-Impacts-of-Covid-19-on-Global-Garment-Supply-Chains.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Unequal-Impacts-of-Covid-19-on-Global-Garment-Supply-Chains.pdf</a> Bio: Genevieve LeBaron is a Professor and Director, School of Public Policy, at Simon Fraser University's Vancouver campus. Her award-winning research investigates the business of forced labour in global supply chains and the effectiveness of government, industry, and worker-led strategies to combat it. Her latest books are Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It (Polity Press, 2020, Winner of the Academy of Management SIM Division’s Best Book Prize) and Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2021, co-edited with David W. Blight and Jessica Pliley). She is the author of over forty academic journal articles and book chapters. LeBaron is Co-Principal Investigator of Re:Structure Lab, a research and policy Lab based across SFU School of Public Policy, Stanford and Yale Universities. Her research has attracted funding from several councils and foundations, including: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); The British Academy; Ford Foundation; Leverhulme Trust; and Humanity United. LeBaron has was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. Drawing from her research, LeBaron works closely with governments, United Nations agencies, global companies and others to build measures to prevent forced labour directly into their business models and supply chain relationships. She currently serves on the UK Parliament’s Modern Slavery and the Supply Chain Advisory Committee. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and the Global Supply Chain — with Genevieve LeBaron” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, June 28, 2022. <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/178-genevieve-lebaron.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/178-genevieve-lebaron.html</a>.

Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and the Global Supply Chain — Genevieve LeBaron

Global supply chains today depend on and reinforce relations of unfree labour, including forced, child, and trafficked labour. These coercive labour relations are often described as a ‘new slavery’, and are understood to be driven by criminality, cultural backwardness, corruption and poverty in the contemporary economy. Yet, dominant narratives about ‘new slavery’ gloss over the historic and ongoing dynamics of colonial capitalism in predictably giving rise to unfree labour in supply chains. These dynamics include: dispossession and expropriation; colonial histories of unfree labour and how these continue to shape the lives of contemporary workers and communities; the role of wealthy states and corporations in engineering global supply chains that yield unequal wealth and value distribution and result in endemic exploitation, violence, and coercion. A deeper analysis reveals that contemporary unfree labour relations are anchored in the legacies and ongoing dynamics of colonial capitalism. In this session, we consider the significance of colonial capitalism in giving rise to unfree labour in global supply chains, and focus on an example of India’s tea industry to ground our discussion.ReadingsLeBaron, Genevieve. 2018. The Global Business of Forced Labour: Report of Findings. University of Sheffield. Behal, Rana. P. One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam. New York: Columbia University Press. LeBaron, Genevieve, Howard, Neil, Thibos, Cameron, and Kyritsis, Penelope (2018) Confronting Root Causes: Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains. London: openDemocracy. Sharma, Nandita. 2020. ‘States and Human Immobilization: Bridging the Conceptual Separation of Slavery, Immigration Controls, and Mass Incarceration.’ Citizenship Studies (online first). Beautin, Lyndsey P. 2017. ‘Black Suffering for/from Anti-Trafficking Advocacy.’ Anti-Trafficking Review (9): 14-30.ResourcesBeyond Trafficking and Slavery –openDemocracy.net platform featuring articles by activists and academics Slavery and its Legacies- Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance &amp; Abolition podcasts Whitewashing Abolition: Race, Displacement, and Combating Human Trafficking – Brown University conference proceedings website Forced Labor and Workers Rights- 10 minute film about forced labour in global supply chains featuring the research of Genevieve LeBaronQuestions for discussionWhat does the ‘New Slavery’ framing of unfree labour reveal and conceal about colonial capitalism? Does it constitute whitewashing? What is the role of states and corporations in engineering contemporary dynamics of unfree labour in global supply chains? How have their roles evolved throughout history? Using the example of the contemporary tea supply chain, how do current dynamics of wealth accumulation, inequality, and exploitation relate to histories of colonial plunder and expropriation? What does the prevalence of unfree labour in contemporary global supply chains tell us about how colonial capitalism works?

Global supply chains today depend on and reinforce relations of unfree labour, including forced, child, and trafficked labour. These coercive labour relations are often described as a ‘new slavery’, and are understood to be driven by criminality, cultural backwardness, corruption and poverty in the contemporary economy. Yet, dominant narratives about ‘new slavery’ gloss over the historic and ongoing dynamics of colonial capitalism in predictably giving rise to unfree labour in supply chains. These dynamics include: dispossession and expropriation; colonial histories of unfree labour and how these continue to shape the lives of contemporary workers and communities; the role of wealthy states and corporations in engineering global supply chains that yield unequal wealth and value distribution and result in endemic exploitation, violence, and coercion. A deeper analysis reveals that contemporary unfree labour relations are anchored in the legacies and ongoing dynamics of colonial capitalism. In this session, we consider the significance of colonial capitalism in giving rise to unfree labour in global supply chains, and focus on an example of India’s tea industry to ground our discussion.Readings <ul><li>LeBaron, Genevieve. 2018. <a href="http://globalbusinessofforcedlabour.ac.uk/report/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Global Business of Forced Labour: Report of Findings</a>. University of Sheffield.</li> <li>Behal, Rana. P. One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam. New York: Columbia University Press.</li> <li>LeBaron, Genevieve, Howard, Neil, Thibos, Cameron, and Kyritsis, Penelope (2018) <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/confronting-root-causes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Confronting Root Causes: Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains</a>. London: openDemocracy.</li> <li>Sharma, Nandita. 2020. ‘<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2020.1859188?journalCode=ccst20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">States and Human Immobilization: Bridging the Conceptual Separation of Slavery, Immigration Controls, and Mass Incarceration</a>.’ Citizenship Studies (online first).</li> <li>Beautin, Lyndsey P. 2017. ‘Black Suffering for/from Anti-Trafficking Advocacy.’ Anti-Trafficking Review (9): 14-30.</li></ul>Resources <ul><li><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond Trafficking and Slavery</a> –<a href="http://openDemocracy.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">openDemocracy.net</a> platform featuring articles by activists and academics</li> <li><a href="https://slaveryanditslegacies.yale.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slavery and its Legacies</a>- Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance &amp; Abolition podcasts</li> <li><a href="https://www.brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/news/2018-03/whitewashing-abolition-race-displacement-and-combating-human-trafficking" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Whitewashing Abolition: Race, Displacement, and Combating Human Trafficking</a> – Brown University conference proceedings website</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZv3IMQ3yU0&amp;feature=emb_logo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Forced Labor and Workers Rights</a>- 10 minute film about forced labour in global supply chains featuring the research of Genevieve LeBaron</li></ul>Questions for discussion <ul><li>What does the ‘New Slavery’ framing of unfree labour reveal and conceal about colonial capitalism? Does it constitute whitewashing?</li> <li>What is the role of states and corporations in engineering contemporary dynamics of unfree labour in global supply chains? How have their roles evolved throughout history?</li> <li>Using the example of the contemporary tea supply chain, how do current dynamics of wealth accumulation, inequality, and exploitation relate to histories of colonial plunder and expropriation?</li> <li>What does the prevalence of unfree labour in contemporary global supply chains tell us about how colonial capitalism works?</li></ul>

Global Supply Chains and Unfree Labour - Prof Genevieve LeBaron

Kevin Bales

Genevieve LeBaron and Kevin Bales, of the Gilder Lehrman Center's Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies.

 Genevieve LeBaron and Kevin Bales on Forced Labor and Modern Slavery 