Working within labor geography, economic geography and development geography, Siobhan McGrath takes a political economy approach to labor. Her scholarship to date has focused on 1) ‘unregulated work’ including wage theft and other violations; 2) how to understand freedoms and unfreedoms within labor relations; 3) how labor unfreedoms are represented and acted upon through categories such as ‘modern slavery’; and 4) how conditions of work are determined through the dynamics of Global Production Networks (GPNs). She has taught at Manchester University, Lancaster University and Durham University in the UK and has also worked within, and alongside, the labor movement. She holds a BA from the School for International Training, an MA in Economics from the New School for Social Research, and a PhD in International Development from the University of Manchester.
Siobhan McGrath
Associate Professor, Geography
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- Scholarly and creative works
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Global Development, University of Manchester, 2010
- M.A. in Economics, New School for Social Research, 2005
- B.A. in International Studies, School for International Training, 1998
Affiliated Department
Scholarly and creative works
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Keynote
IAG2025: Institute of Australian Geographer’s ConferenceNewcastle, NSW, AustraliaJuly2025 -
Theorising unfreedom, spatializing anti-slavery
International Labor Process ConferenceGoettingen, GermanyApril2024 -
Book Review Essay—Decolonising “Modern Slavery”
Antipode OnlineNovember2024 -
Life Stories of Garment Workers in India: Towards a labor-centric labor regimes framework
Published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers2024Vol. 115Issue #3 -
Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
Chapter: Unfree Labor in the 21st century?Published by Edward Elgar2023 -
Review of Labour Regimes and Global Production By Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith
British Journal of Industrial RelationsDecember2023Vol. 61Issue #4 -
Special Issue Proposal: Logistics and Social Reproduction