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ChainGE Lab (ERC)
New Labour Law for a Global Value Chain Economy
This project maps the mismatch between existing labour law and institutions and the realities of global value chains and reimagines labour law to meet the challenges of supply chain capitalism. It aims to identify institutional power resources for workers and align labour governance with the power dynamics in global value chains.
Labour law gradually protects fewer of the world’s workers.
This is because supply chain capitalism has created a disconnect between labour law's foundations and current global market realities.
Labour law, rooted in a dyadic employer-employee model, struggles to address the realities of supply chain capitalism, where direct employers are often suppliers in Global Value Chains (GVCs) controlled by higher-tier corporations. This project seeks to reimagine labour law to fit the multi-stakeholder realities of GVCs, address the labour governance crisis in GVCs and strengthen workers’ power and voice in supply chain capitalism.
Led by Principal Investigator Prof. Hila Shamir
ChainGE Lab is a team of international interdisciplinary scholars and activists working collaboratively to retool labour law to meet the challenges of supply chain capitalism.
ChainGE Lab (ERC) is a collaborative research lab focused on workers’ rights in global and domestic supply chains. It advances legal and institutional frameworks that strengthen collective power, particularly for marginalized workers. The lab fosters interdisciplinary research, peer learning, and mentoring for early-career scholars. It has two key components: a core research team and a collaboratory—a broader network of scholars, policymakers, and activists dedicated to workers’ rights in global value chains.
