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Lisa Carstensen; Siobhán McGrath
Struggle in a Time of Crisis, 11/2015Book Chapter
In 2012 two major clothing retailers, the Spanish group Zara and the Brazilian Marisa, were suspended from membership of the Brazilian ‘National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labour’. In both cases, the suspension occurred less than a year after the firms became members in the first place. As members of the Pact, they had pledged to eliminate slave labour from their supply chains. These cases generated a major debate – about forced labour in São Paulo’s clothing industry but also about the Pact itself and about the ‘Dirty List’ of those found to be using slave labour. So how does the Pact
