Forgotten children: A socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms
Nayak, R and Manning, Louise (2021) Forgotten children: A socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms. Trends in Organized Crime. ISSN 1084-4791
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Abstract
Using a systems analysis approach, the authors analyse forced child labour incidents in Indian cottonseed farms in the years 2003/04 and 2014/15, and explores the role played by human factors in contributing to the illegal use of child labour in the Indian agri-food sector. National policies on labour welfare and rights are reviewed through the case studies used as a lens to explore wider issues associated with forced child labour in supply chains. The study highlights the evolution of organised crime in India with regards to the reliance on forced child labour, using the four conceptual dimensions of modern slavery established by the UK Home Office in 2017. The study does identify limitations and flaws associated with designing policies based on a “work-as-imagined” philosophy and demonstrates how the use of maturity modelling can explore how exploitation, corruption and organised crime is framed and can become more formalised over time.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Child labour, Organised Crime, Sociotechnical Systems, Policy implications, Asia, India |
| Depositing User: | Users 12 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2021 15:31 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2022 14:50 |
| URI: | https://rau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/16466 |
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