- 9 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on September 17, 2019
- Ends on November 19, 2019
Forced and Precarious Labor in the Global Economy: Slavery by Another Name?
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Syllabus
Week Two: Global Supply Chains and Labour Exploitation
Week Three: Combating Labour Exploitation in Global Supply Chains
Week Four: Migrant Labour and the Global Economy: Outsourcing exploitation
Week Five: Legal Rights and Workplace Protections for Migrant Workers
Week Six: Commercial Sex and the Global Economy
Week Seven: Commercial Sex and Decent Work: Rights not Rescue.
Week Eight: Strategies for combating forced and precarious labour: More than bad apples and deviant criminals
Week Nine: Wrap up
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Instructors
Joel Quirk
Professor in the Department of Political Studies
Wits University
Neil Howard
Prize Fellow in International Development
University of Bath
Elena Shih
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies
Brown University
Prabha Kotiswaran
Professor of Law and Social Justice
King's College London
Samuel Okyere
Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology
University of Nottingham
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The University of the Witwatersrand is a South African academic institution located in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, in the historic Witwatersrand region. The university is nicknamed "Wits". It is the largest and most prestigious university in South Africa.
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