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# Confronting the root causes of forced labour: concentrated corporate power and ownership
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/confronting-root-caus-5/
- Published: 2019-03-19T16:58:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-21T16:57:07.000Z
- Description: Multinational corporations are becoming increasingly powerful – and this has serious implications for workers at the bottom of supply chains.
- Author: Genevieve LeBaron
- Tags: Home, #Migrated, Confronting Root Causes Report, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 11:26, #ImagesUploaded, #appended-excerpt

> As labour is usually a factory’s biggest cost, the most obvious option for remaining profitable is to further squeeze workers in turn.

> Sometimes, suppliers respond to commercial pressures by introducing business models configured directly around forced labour.

Multinational corporations are becoming increasingly powerful – and this has serious implications for workers at the bottom of supply chains.