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24%OFFSiddharth Kara - Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia - 9780231158480 - V9780231158480
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Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia

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Description for Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 5 figures. BIC Classification: HBJF; JPS; KJVW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
Siddharth Kara's Sex Trafficking has become a critical resource for its revelations into an unconscionable business, and its detailed analysis of the trade's immense economic benefits and human cost. This volume is Kara's second, explosive study of slavery, this time focusing on the deeply entrenched and wholly unjust system of bonded labor. Drawing on eleven years of research in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, Kara delves into an ancient and ever-evolving mode of slavery that ensnares roughly six out of every ten slaves in the world and generates profits that exceeded $17.6 billion in 2011. In addition to providing a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
601 g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231158480
SKU
V9780231158480
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About Siddharth Kara
Siddharth Kara is Director of the Carr Center Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Fellow on Forced Labor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kara speaks and consults extensively on contemporary slavery worldwide and advises several governments on antitrafficking policy and law. His first book, Sex Trafficking: Inside ... Read more

Reviews for Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia
Kara's exploration is perhaps the most ambitious and reasoned treatment of this form of slavery in the modern era. By combining academic rigor and discipline alongside the narratives and voices of slaves, Kara offers a definitive analysis of the complexity of bonded labor as well as a reinvigoration of the movement to end this form of slavery globally. A must-read ... Read more

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