Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (22)

Predicting the Past: Testing Expert Historical Judgement (2025)
Journal Article
Gill, D. J., Trachtenberg, M., Gill, M. J., Tetlock, P. E., Robb, T. K., Varnum, M. E. W., Hutcherson, C. A., Grossmann, I., & Trodd, Z. (in press). Predicting the Past: Testing Expert Historical Judgement. American Historical Review,

Absences pervade the historical record. The loss or destruction of material, redaction of documents, silence of participants, data embargoes, and poor record keeping present inherent difficulties to any understanding of the past. Gaps in the historic... Read More about Predicting the Past: Testing Expert Historical Judgement.

The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns (2024)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Sparks, J. D., Foody, G. M., Girindran, R., Gosling, S., Trodd, Z., Bhriain, L. H., & Rodriguez-Huerta, E. (2025). The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns. Sustainable Development, 33(2), 3099-3117. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3272

The impacts of climate change-induced heat stress on workers are most prevalent in sectors with decent work deficits and this requires consideration for sustainable development. This paper focuses on the informal economy of brick kilns in India, a se... Read More about The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns.

Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset (2024)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z., Waite, C., Goulding, J., & Boyd, D. S. (2024). Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset. Societies, 14(5), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050062

The new Domestic Workers Dataset is the largest single set of surveys (n = 11,759) of domestic workers to date. Our analysis of this dataset reveals features about the lives and work of this “hard-to-find” population in India—a country estimated to h... Read More about Beyond the Walls: Patterns of Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Exploitation in a New Domestic Workers Dataset.

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
Journal Article
Such, E., Gardner, A., Dang, M., Wright, N., Bravo-Balsa, L., Brotherton, V., Browne, H., Esiovwa, N., Jiménez, E., Lucas, B., Wyman, E., & Trodd, Z. (in press). The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2194760

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation (2022)
Journal Article
Jiménez, E., Brotherton, V., Gardner, A., Wright, N., Browne, H., Esiovwa, N., Dang, M., Wyman, E., Bravo‐Balsa, L., Lucas, B., Gul, M., Such, E., & Trodd, Z. (2023). The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation. Children & Society, 37(1), 216-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12572

This article discusses the unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives of the children of survivors of modern slavery, child victims of exploitation and children at risk of exploitation in the UK. It draws on research that has analysed the risks and impa... Read More about The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation.

After Enslavement Ends: Ensuring Redress for Victims (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwarz, K. (2020). After Enslavement Ends: Ensuring Redress for Victims. In K. Bales, & Z. Trodd (Eds.), The Antislavery Usable Past: History’s Lessons for How We End Slavery Today (133-156). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham

A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery (2018)
Journal Article
Nicholson, A., Dang, M., & Trodd, Z. (2018). A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery. Human Rights Law Review, 18(4), 689-704. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngy032

© 2018 The Author(s). This article examines key debates on the legal definition of slavery from the perspective of survivors. This group has previously not been included in the debates on slavery definitions. By drawing upon new interviews we have co... Read More about A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery.

The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture (2016)
Book Chapter
Trodd, Z. (2016). The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture. In C.-M. Bernier, & H. Durkin (Eds.), Visualising Slavery: Art Across the Black Diaspora (129-152). Liverpool University Press

By the time of his death in 1895, Frederick Douglass had sat for approximately 160 different photographs. This makes him the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, rather than Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman or General Custer (all previo... Read More about The After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture.

Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American (2015)
Book
Stauffer, J., Trodd, Z., & Bernier, C.-M. (2015). Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American. Liveright Publishing Corporation

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century a... Read More about Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American.

Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management (2015)
Journal Article
Gold, S., Trautrims, A., & Trodd, Z. (2015). Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management. Supply Chain Management, 20(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-02-2015-0046

Purpose
– This paper aims to draw attention to the challenges modern slavery poses to supply chain management. Although many international supply chains are (most often unknowingly) connected to slave labour activities, supply chain managers and res... Read More about Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management.

John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature (2015)
Journal Article
Trodd, Z. (2015). John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature. Journal of American Studies, 49(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815000055

Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. This article charts the adaptation of that... Read More about John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature.