Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

by Kevin Bales

Book Overview

Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expos , Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people--in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245075
• ISBN13: 9780520245075
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Modern slavery made clear

This is an amazing book. Bales is the current guru on the topic of slavery in the modern world. He carefully explains the differences between what used to be considered slavery (such as owning a person) and the modern version of holding people in bondage until they are "used up" and can simply be tossed aside. He gives examples of the various forms this takes, all horrifying. This is a "must read" for citizens of a global world.

From the City Lights Bookstore reviews:

Each of the chapters in Understanding Global Slavery explores a different facet of global slavery. Bales investigates slavery's historical roots to illuminate today's puzzles. He explores our basic ideas about what slavery is and how the phenomenon fits into our moral, political, and economic worlds. He seeks to explain how human trafficking brings people into our cities and how the demand for trafficked workers, servants, and prostitutes shapes modern slavery.