Siddharth Kara

Modern Slavery

A Global Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Siddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path toward its abolition. This searing exposà â including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressorsâ documents one of humanityâ s greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780231158473
• ISBN-10: 0231158475
• Artikelnr.: 66692365

Autorenporträt

Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an associate professor of human trafficking and modern slavery at Nottingham University. Kara is the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2008), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and inspired the film Trafficked (2017), and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012), both from Columbia University Press. His most recent book is Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Modern Slavery: An Overview
2. Sex Trafficking: The Case of Nigeria
3. Labor Trafficking: Slavery at Your Dining Table
4. Organ Trafficking: Sold for Parts
5. Technology and Human Trafficking: Friend and Foe
6. Debt Bondage: Beyond South Asia
7. Global Supply Chains: Blood and the Sea
8. A Framework to Eradicate Slavery
Appendix A: Global Slavery Metrics
Appendix B: Select Slavery Economics
Appendix C: Sample Research Questionnaire
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Rezensionen

This book provides an overview of the different forms of modern-day slavery, as well as a framework for the eradication of the phenomenon. Siddharth Kara uses case studies to exemplify the cultural norms that perpetuate trafficking and provides an extensive analysis of data through a unique business-model approach. Using a combination of rigorous analysis and anecdotal stories, Kara delves into subfields in modern-day slavery that have rarely been covered Jennifer Bryson Clark, coeditor of A Global Handbook on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery