Disposable people : new slavery in the global economy

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Disposable people : new slavery in the global economy

Kevin Bales

University of California Press, c2012

Rev. ed., updated with a new preface

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

目次

Preface to the Revised Edition Preface to the 2012 Edition 1. The New Slavery 2. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child 3. Mauritania: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten 4. Brazil: Life on the Edge 5. Pakistan: When Is a Slave Not a Slave? 6. India: The Ploughman's Lunch 7. What Can Be Done? Coda: Three Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery Appendix I: A Note on Research Methods Appendix 2: Excerptsfrom International Conventions on Slavery Notes Acknowledgments Index

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