As professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam University, Laura Murphy’s research shines a light on the murky supply chain lines linking major brands to forced labour in china.
As an idealistic young girl, Laura Murphy dreamed that she might have been one of those at the forefront of the battle to end slavery had she but lived a century or so earlier.
She has subsequently conducted research on forced labour in India, Nigeria, Ghana, the US and Canada, but didn’t turn her attention to China until she found herself living in Ürümqi, capital of the Xinjiang region, as a PhD student in 2004/5.
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