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 currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Economic Geography. 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
- About
- 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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Economic Geography for the next century
Taylor & Francis -
The Springer Handbook of Economic Geography
Chapter: Work(ers)2026 -
Keynote
IAG2025: Institute of Australian Geographer’s ConferenceNewcastle, NSW, AustraliaJuly2025 -
Co-organizer and Chair, Roundtable on Economic (In)Justice, Space and the Law
Global Conference on Economic GeographyClarkMay2025 -
Co-organizer of two sessions on Labor Geographies and the State, within which I am presenting a paper with my co-author
Global Conference on Economic GeographyClarkMay2025 -
Panelist, Economic Geography at 100 #3: Imagining EG futures, the next century
Global Conference on Economic GeographyClarkMay2025 -
The political climate and US Higher Education
Global Conference on Economic GeographyClarkMay2025 -
Everyday Labor Unfreedoms and the Law
Sydney, Australia2025Sponsored by University of Sydney, School of Geosciences -
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
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