Section 54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act places new reporting requirements on firms with a global annual turnover of £36m operating any part of their business in the UK. This new regulatory requirement led to an increased interest from different academic disciplines.
The ICCSR aim to contribute to an emerging business perspective on Modern Slavery research through theoretical, methodological and empirical understandings of extreme labour exploitation.
Victims of modern slavery often face a wide range of human rights abuses and violations that need to be redressed by both the private and public governance regimes.
The ICCSR are actively seeking research funding through collaborations with the University of Nottingham’s ‘Rights Lab’ Beacon of Excellence as well as other international partner institutions.
Professor Robert Caruana
Dr Claire Ingram
Professor Mihaela Keleman
Dr Lara Bianchi
Caruana, R, Crane, A, Gold, S and LeBaron, G. (2020) Modern slavery in business: the sad and sorry state of a non-field, Businessand Society, Forthcoming
Caruana, R. (2018), "The Role of Discourse Analysis in Researching Severe LabourExploitation", in Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy Methodological Challenges and Advances, Oxford University Press.
Crane, A, Caruana, R. and Phung, K. (2019) Advancing Research on Modern Slavery and Business: New Theoretical and Empirical Directions, Showcase symposium, Academy of Management Annual Conference, Chicago
Caruana, R.; Crane, A.; Ingram, C. (2018), "Modern Slavery: The Role of Prototypesin Categorizing Extreme Labor Exploitation", in Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.
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