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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Kevin Bales
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Description for Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Paperback. Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. This book points the way to abolishing slavery in global economy. It presents actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b/w photos, 2 tables, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: JPQB; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488. New Slavery in the Global Economy. 336 pages, ill. Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. This book points the way to abolishing slavery in global economy. It presents actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JPQB; KNXB. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 21. Weight: 484.
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery", one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three ... Read more
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery", one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
487g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272910
SKU
V9780520272910
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Ref
99-44
About Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales is the author of The Slave Next Door and Ending Slavery, both from UC Press. He is also Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, Washington DC, and Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the WIlberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He is the world's leading expert on contemporary slavery.
Reviews for Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
"Disposable People is an eloquently written plea on behalf of people who have been neglected in public discourse. Writing in a readable fashion and providing a gripping account of slaves and their families around the world, Bales reminds us that modernism has not reached all of humanity. The new type of slavery teaches us that although conditions have improved for ... Read more