Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy - Hardcover

Bales, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520217977 ISBN 13: 9780520217973

Publisher: California, 1999, 1999

Synopsis

Biography Going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed how modern slavery penetrates the global economy and flows into the things we buy. Named by Utne Reader as a "visionary who is changing your world;" and the originator of one of "100 World-Changing Discoveries" by the Association of British Universities, he is a leading abolitionist in the last great anti-slavery movement. In 2001 he co-founded Free the Slaves, the American sister-organization of the UK's Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights group. In eight years it has helped to liberate thousands of slaves in India, Nepal, Haiti, Ghana, Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Bangladesh, and work with them to build new lives of dignity. After reading Bales' book Ending Slavery, President Clinton told the plenary of the Clinton Global Initiative: "It tells you that it is a problem we can solve and here's how to do it." This year, with Ron Soodalter, he published The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, an expose and plan to make America slave-free for the first time in its history.

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From the Back Cover

"A well-researched, scholarly, and deeply disturbing exposé of modern-day slavery with well-thought-out strategies for what to do to combat this scourge. None of us is allowed the luxury of imagined impotence. We can do something about it."-Desmond Tutu

About the Author

Kevin Bales is President of Free the Slaves, Washington, DC, (www.freetheslaves.net) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey Roehampton, England. He is the world's leading expert on contemporary slavery.

Edition details

• Publisher: California, 1999
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0520217977
• ISBN 13: 9780520217973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298