Modern Slavery in Transnational Supply Chains. Public National Regulations: Words or Deeds?

Abstract

In a digitalized world where States instrumentalise technology to isolate people and favour the spread of a “culture of helplessness” with respect to new global problems such as modern slavery in transnational supply chains, the paper aims at investigating the lobbyist relationship between public institution and multinational enterprises as disclosed by the weaknesses and ‘economic gaps’ in all forms of regulatory regimes (‘transparency legislation’, US ‘foreign policy’ strategy, revealing technologies) developed to tackle the mentioned issue.

Keywords: Modern slavery; supply chains; culture of helplessness; transparency legislation; due diligence; disclosure; stringency; hybridity; foreign policy