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Disposable People - New Slavery in the Global Economy (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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Disposable People - New Slavery in the Global Economy (Paperback, 3rd edition)
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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 interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The
enormous population explosion over the past three decades has
flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished,
desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and
modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them
and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid
economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and
violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected
the most vulnerable individuals. Bales' vivid case studies present
actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn
historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the
complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that
liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged
miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for
combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive
results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the
Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission
in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of
raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to
effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations
linked to slavery. "Disposable People" is the first book to point
the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy. All of the
author's royalties from this book go to fund anti-slavery projects
around the world.
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