A panel of distinguished speakers will address this question, to be followed by a general discussion. All are welcome.
About the speakers
Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and Senior Research Fellow at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is the author of Les métamorphoses du travail contraint: Une histoire globale XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (Sciences Po, Les Presses, 2020) and of Labor on the Fringes of Empire: Voice, Exit and the Law (Springer, 2018).
Zoe Adams is Fellow at King's College, Cambridge and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Labour and the Wage: A Critical Perspective (OUP, 2020) and of The Legal Concept of Work (OUP, 2022).
Liberty Bridge is Senior Associate Solicitor at Leigh Day Solicitors, specialising in international claims against parent companies for breaches of fundamental rights down their supply chains. She has conduct of the case of Limbu v Dyson (judgment on jurisdiction) [2024] EWCA Civ 1564. The Claimants are Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers transported to Malaysia and not paid the local minimum wage, amongst other forms of mistreatment. They seek redress against Dyson, using the law of negligence and unjust enrichment. Liberty will also discuss her other cases Milasi Josiya and others v British American Tobacco and others; and San San Aye and 130 others v Tesco PLC, Intertek Group PLC and others.
Natalie Sedacca is Assistant Professor in Employment Law at the University of Durham. She has carried out theoretical and practical work on emancipation of domestic workers. She was also part of the move towards removal of the exemption from the National Minimum Wage for family workers. In her forthcoming book, she discusses the rights of domestic workers in Chile, the UK, India, and South Africa and the use of human rights law to challenge lack of protection. She will discuss her draft chapter on the devaluation of domestic work through perception of a ‘family-like’- relationship.
Sandhya Drew (Chair) is a Barrister, Senior Lecturer at City St George's, Honorary Adjunct Professor in Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Professeure Invitée, Université Paris Nanterre. Her focus on forced labour started with Human Trafficking: Human Rights Law and Practice (LAG, 2009). Her article 'Safe in Leicester Town? Law's reach to those working below the minimum wage' is forthcoming in ILJ 2025.
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