RT Article
T1 Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 26
IS 3
SP 203
OP 234
A1 Nayak, Rounaq
A1 Manning, Louise
A2 Manning, Louise
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1858640385
AB 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 explore 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.
K1 India
K1 Asia
K1 Policy implications
K1 Sociotechnical Systems
K1 Organised Crime
K1 Child labour
DO 10.1007/s12117-021-09426-x