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Tamar Barkay
Tamar Barkay
Tel Hai College
ChainGE Lab Research Fellow
Tamar Barkay is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Sociology and Anthropology Cluster at Tel Hai College, and a Research Fellow at ChainGE Lab. She earned her PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University. Her research lies in the field of political and economic sociology. She studies labor governance mechanisms in global supply chains; transformations in states, markets, societies, and individuals' relations; new forms of non-state authority, governance, and regulation; and the link between the rise of CSR and the decline of organized labor. Tamar is a recipient of a grant from the Israel Science Foundation for a research project on corporate responsibility and the challenge of global labor governance. Her co-edited book, Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press (co-edited with Hila Shamir, Bimal Arora, and Shilpi Banerjee).
Tamar is currently studying the normalization and moralization of warfare through CSR, alongside the professionalization of internal CSR and its implications for employment relations. Her broader research agenda also includes work on the Israeli diaspora and post-nationalism.
At ChainGE Lab, Tamar is collaborating with Hila Shamir on two studies: one develops a typology of labor governance mechanisms in global supply chains, and the other examines worker cooperatives as a form of labor governance mechanism in supply chains. She also collaborates with Yaniv Ron-El on a research project that develops an analytical framework for reimagining labor governance mechanisms with greater potential to subvert the underlying logic of the supply chain.