Outsourcing is the crucial dynamic that allows labour exploitation to take place without tarnishing the reputation or credibility of MNCs.
Confronting the root causes of forced labour: outsourcing
Outsourcing allows big brands to distance themselves from big human rights abuses, including forced labour.
Cameron Thibos
Cameron Thibos is the managing editor of Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. He is a former research associate at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and holds a D.Phil from the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.
Neil Howard
Neil Howard is an academic activist and Prize Fellow at the University of Bath. His research focuses on unfree labour, and on the workings of the policy establishment as it seeks to respond. Follow him on twitter @NeilPHoward.