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Collaboratory Meetings
2025
Book Launch: Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains, December 11, 2025,
2:00 - 4:00 pm (Tel Aviv, UTC + 02.00)
Zoom link to connect on the day of the event:
https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/84677546472
The book is available open access.
Introduction: Hila Shamir, PI ChainGE Lab, Tel Aviv University
Chair and discussant: Tamar Barkay, Tel-Hai: University of Kiryat Shmona (On the rise); ChainGE Lab
Presentation of Chapters: Franz Ebert, ILO Research; Ingrid Landau, Monash University; Sahiba Gill, Global Labour Justice; Saie Shetye, Migration and Asylum Project, Delhi & Divya Priyadarshini, Duke University
Judy Fudge (McMaster University) will discuss her book Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour (CUP, 2025), June 12, 2025
Speaker: Judy Fudge, McMaster University
Discussant: Discussant: Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, ChainGE Lab, Tel Aviv University
The Challenge of Workers’ Rights Enforcement: Local, National, and Global, May 22, 2025
Speakers: Janice Fine & Hana Shephard, Rutgers University; Guy Mundlak, Tel Aviv University; Shelley Marshall, RMIT University & Hila Shamir, PI ChainGE Lab, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Fabiola Mieres, ILO
Centering Workers’ Voices: Methodological Approaches to Researching Work in Global Value Chains, April 24, 2025
Speakers: Shahar Shoham, The Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
& Ema Moolchand, RMIT University
Discussant: Pankhuri Agarwal, School of Management, University of Bath
Exploring the Power of Trade Agreements and Bans to Enhance Workers’ Rights in Global Value Chains, February 13, 2025
Speakers: Desirée LeClercq, University of Georgia & Franz Ebert, ILO
Worker Driven Social Responsibility Model, January 16, 2025
Presenter: Pauline Jerrentrup, London School of Economics and co-author (with Sarosh Kuruvilla) of the recent Dindigul Agreement Year Two Report
Discussants: Kathryn Babineau & Victor Yengle, University of Virginia
