The Social Effects of Global Trade

Joy Murray is a senior research fellow with the Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group in the University of Sydney’s School of Physics, Australia. Before joining the ISA, Murray worked for over 25 years in education, preschool to postgraduate. She has also worked with residents of government housing estates to collaboratively develop leadership capacity. With the ISA, in addition to contributing to numerous journal articles, she has edited The Sustainability Practitioner’s Guide to Input-Output Analysis (2010), Enough for All Forever: A Handbook for Learning about Sustainability (2012), The Sustainability Practitioner’s Guide to Multiregional Input-Output Analysis (2013), and The Sustainability Practitioner’s Guide to Social Analysis and Assessment (2016).

Global trade in an era of neoliberal capitalism: Origins, context and implications. Regulating human rights and responsibilities in global supply chains. Calculating the cost of trade. Human rights due diligence and the Social Hotspots Database. Corruption embodied in international trade. Social footprints of nations: a look at welfare. Employment flows from and into the Arab region: A case study to measure the embodied employment in 2010. The distribution of labor and wages embodied in European consumption. Assessing the structure and social effects of China’s provincial labour landscape. Fairness and globalization in the Western European clothing supply chain. Income effects in global value chains driven by EU exports. Global trade, pollution and mortality. Sustainable supply chain solutions.