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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy 2nd Edition

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  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 2nd edition (November 16, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520243846
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520243842
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
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Five Stars
By Shannon S. on April 23, 2015
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it is what it is
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By mike laythorpe on December 30, 2014
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Awesome Read
By annette mccammon on May 10, 2015
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Great book
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Slavery 21st Century Style
By Alicia Crumpton on November 24, 2013
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For anyone who holds the notion that slavery was abolished years ago - read this book. In describing what Bales called "The New Slavery" he cites several explanations (pp. 12, 13):
1) Increase in world population post - WWII
2) Without work and with increasing fear as resources diminish, people become desperate and life becomes cheap
3) Rapid social and economic change
4) Poor families have lost their old ways of meeting a crisis - modernization and globalization. . . . have shattered these traditional families
5) Little attention is paid to sustainable livelihoods. . . . the poor have fewer and fewer options

Through the use of cases (Thailand, Mauritania, Brazil, Pakistan, and India), Bales proceeds to illustrate the face of slavery in the world. He closes the book with a discussion of things that can be done including specific things the reader can do to stop slavery.
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Five Stars
By 2fdr4kids on August 7, 2014
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a book everyone needs to read
By Sheila J. Siegel on May 4, 2014
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Once I learned of the 29 million people still enslaved in the world I began reading everything I could get my hands on about slavery. This book is one of the best. Not only is it we'll written, but it provides a clear and fascinating picture, not only of slavery as it exists today, but reasons it exists and some ways people can begin to deal with it. The book is also an endorsement of Free The Slaves, but it is an organization worth endorsing. This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in understanding slavery, anyone who cares about their fellow men and women, anyone who cares.
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easily murdered or worked to death
By Abby Goldsmith on March 28, 2015
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Emotionally, I found this to be a very difficult read--but it's extremely eye-opening and well worthwhile. The author personally went undercover in countries such as Mauritania, Pakistan, and Brazil, in order to investigate slavery. He found different socioeconomic factors and circumstances that contributed to black market slavery in each nation. But slavery is slavery, even when it's called something else, even when it's illegal and hidden. I wish more people were brave enough to shine a spotlight on it. Freedom is a basic human right. It's right up there with the right to live. And those two rights are tied together; without freedom, a person becomes a victim, easily murdered or worked to death.

The only way slavery can ever begin to be eradicated is if people acknowledge where it exists and who perpetrates it. This book is a great place to begin.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Understanding Slavery in Today's Global Economy
By April McCallum on August 28, 2013
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In DISPOSABLE PEOPLE: New Slavery in the Global Economy, abolitionist and author Kevin Bales makes a clarion call for the ending of modern-day slavery around the world.

This book is well researched and documented through the author's personal experience going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders. His investigation of slavery took him around the globe to Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India.

Even with the resurgence of an abolitionist movement in modern times, the fact is, there are an estimated 27 million people living in slavery around the globe, yet many still escape our awareness or acknowledgement. Why?

Bales argues that the increasing globalization of the economy--supply and demand--has fueled the "need" for coerced labor in the global supply chain, including forced child labor and debt bondage. What many readers will find interesting is his economic rationale for why slavery is not as profitable or sustainable as fair labor practices.

In what is referred to as the emergence of a "new slavery," he asserts that modern-day slaves, unlike traditional forms of slavery, are not always considered a long-term investment. That means human beings lose their value. Many are viewed by slave masters as cheap, usable and sometimes (as in the case of sex slavery) reusable, "disposable" people.

Bales also illuminates the urgent need to raise individual and global social consciousness by connecting the dots from the slave to the end-user. He challenges our norms, by highlighting the necessity to re-think our purchase and consumption habits and preferences, and how supply and demand can directly affect slavery. The book challenges political, corporate *and* personal consumption mindsets and behaviors.Read more ›
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