Forced and Precarious Labor in the Global Economy: Slavery by Another Name?

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  • 9 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on September 17, 2019
  • Ends on November 19, 2019

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Syllabus

Week One: Introducing The Global Challenge of Forced and Precarious Labour

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

Prerequisite

None.

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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