In their contribution to Navigating a New Era of Business and Human Rights, Amol Mehra and Chloé Bailey foreground the immense potential of the worker-driven social responsibility model to shift the current balance of power within global supply chains. They write:

“In order to enact transformational change that percolates through to the roots of the supply chain, business responses to modern slavery should place more emphasis on the adoption of enforceable standards focused on the protection of workers’ rights and access to justice. In particular we believe there is real potential in the broader-scale adoption of the worker-driven social responsibility model that amplifies worker voice and enables workers to directly enforce their own rights through rebalancing the power asymmetries inherent in the globalised supply chain system. Scaling bottom-up solutions in this way is not a panacea, however. It is only through the totality of supply chain efforts – strengthened government regulation, incentives on corporations to act, and worker empowerment – that we will witness a sea change in supply chains.”