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How We Free Today's Slaves
BY KEVIN BALES In his 1999 book, Disposable People, British Quaker author Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.
University of California 2007 274 PP. Cloth
$24.95 (low stock)
The Secret World Of 27 Million People
BY KEVIN BALES, ZOE TRODD, ALEX KENT WILLIAMSON There are 27 million slaves alive today - more than at any other point in our history. Written by the world's leading experts, (including Quaker Kevin Bales) this examination combines original research with first-hand accounts from actual slaves to expose one of today's worst humanitarian crises. The first introductory guide to modern slavery in all its forms, coverage includes modern slavery's history, economy, health consequences, and gender, racial, and religious dynamics, and the pressures of armed conflict and environmental disaster.
One World 2009 224 PP. Paper
$19.95 (low stock)
A Groundwork Guide
BY KEVIN BALES AND REBECCA CORNELL Globalization, governmental corruption, and the population explosion have thrust billions of people into the pool of potential slaves. This huge surplus of impoverished people has pushed the human price tag to only $100, the cost of a pair of "designer" jeans. This means that it's worse to be a slave today than ever before. "Slavery Today" traces the "products" created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes. It addresses the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while presenting solutions and ways readers can get involved in the growing global anti-slavery movement. Kevin Bales is a Quaker.
Groundwood Books 2008 144 PP. Paper
$10.00 (low stock)
Personal Stories From Today's Slaves
EDITED BY KEVIN BALES AND ZOE TRODD Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the U.S. are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the 21st century. There are 27 million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent except Antarctica. This book contains 95 narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe. Told in the slaves' own words, the narratives movingly chronicle the horrors of contemporary slavery, the process of becoming free, and the challenges faced by former slaves as they build a life in freedom.
Cornell University Press 2008 260 PP. Paper
$18.95 (in stock)
A Reader
BY KEVIN BALES Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expos‚, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended. Written to raise awareness and deepen understanding, and touching again on individual lives around the world, this book tackles head-on one of the most urgent and difficult problems facing us today.
University of California Press 2005 212 PP. Paper
$19.95 (in stock)
Slavery Today
To Plead Our Own Cause
Modern Slavery
Understanding Global Slavery
Ending Slavery
