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Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

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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.

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.