Siobhán McGrath

Associate Professor, Geography

SiMcGrath@clarku.edu

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.
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(s)
- Geography Department
Scholarly and Creative Works
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- Presentations
  
  Theorising unfreedom, spatializing anti-slavery
  
  International Labor Process Conference
  
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  Goettingen, Germany
  
  April
  
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  2024
  
  Siobhán McGrath
  ,
  Ayushman Bhagat
- Reviews, Abstracts, Pamphlets
  
  Review of Labour Regimes and Global Production By Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith
  
  British Journal of Industrial Relations
  
  December
  
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  2023
  
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  Vol. 61
  
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  Issue #4
  
  Siobhán McGrath
- Chapters In Books
  
  Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
  Chapter: Unfree Labor in the 21st century?
  
  Published by Edward Elgar
  
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  2023
  
  Siobhán McGrath
  ,
  Mario Atzeni
  ,
  Dario Azzellini
  ,
  Alessandra Mezzadri
  ,
  Ursula Apitzsch
  ,
  Phoebe Moore
- Other Scholarly or Creative Work
  
  Special Issue Proposal: Logistics and Social Reproduction
  
  Siobhán McGrath
  ,
  Hannah Schling
  ,
  Francis Portes Virginio
  ,
  Debbie Hopkins
- Article in Refereed Journal
  
  Life Stories of Garment Workers in India: Towards a labor-centric labor regimes framework
  
  Published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  
  Siobhán McGrath
  ,
  Madhumita Dutta

Siobhán McGrath

Degrees

Affiliated Department(s)

Scholarly and Creative Works