Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide

by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, Alex Kent Williamson

Overview

Written by the world's leading experts and campaigners, Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide blends original research with shocking first-hand accounts from slaves themselves around the world to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us today. Only a handful of slaves are reached and freed each year, but the authors offer hope for the future with a global blueprint that proposes to end slavery in our lifetime All royalties will go to Free the Slaves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851688159
Publisher:	Oneworld Publications
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Series:	Beginner's Guides
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kevin Bales is president of Free the Slaves and advisor to the UN and the US and British governments. He is the author of the award-winning Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, and Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves.

Zoe Trodd is a history specialist at Harvard University.

Alex Kent Williamson is a pathology specialist at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Illustrations x

1 Perpetual chains: slavery throughout history and today 1

2 By yet another name: definitions and forms of modern slavery 26

3 A money-making system: modern slavery and the global economy 47

4 Their own sufferings: modern slavery for women and girls 65

5 Of one blood: racial, ethnic, and religious aspects of modern slavery 91

6 Subjugated soldiers, terrorized terrain: armed conflict and environmental destruction as factors in modem slavery 107

7 The suffering of multitudes: modern slavery's health risks and consequences 124

8 To effect its abolition: ending slavery in our lifetimes 145

Notes 168

Further reading 189

Glossary 191

Appendix A timeline 194

Appendix B anti-slavery legislation 199

Appendix C anti-slavery organizations 212

Index 214

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book to make a reader's blood boil—and, I hope, to move him or her to action."

Half the Way Home and King Leopold's Ghost Adam Hochschild - author of Bury the Chains

"What is needed is nothing less than a new abolition movement, led by campaigners as determined as Douglass or Wilberforce. This timely and important book is its rallying call."

The Times

"A dazzling work of scholarship and protest, a clarion call that will, like the abolitionist literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, awaken people to the dehumanizing effects of global capitalism. Bales, Trodd, and Williamson are leading the way in the effort to end modern slavery."

John Stauffer - award-winning author and one of the world's leading scholars of antislavery movemen

"Modern Slavery is the most riveting expos

whose books include 'Nickel an Barbara Ehrenreich - award-winning journalist and bestselling author

"What is needed is nothing less than a new abolition movement, led by campaigners as determined as Douglass or Wilberforce. This timely and important book is its rallying call."

The Times