Disposable people
by Kevin Bales · first published 1999
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Kevin Bales's disturbing investigation of conditions in Thailand, Mauritania, Brazil, Pakistan, India, and parts of America and Europe reveals the nature of the new slavery and how it has adapted to the global economy. But one thing remains the same: violence. People are still taken by force and held against their wills through fear. Bales interviews actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials to reveal the lives of slaves, including enslaved brickmakers in Pakistan, sex slaves in Thailand, and domestic slaves in France. Throughout he uncovers the economic and social forces that sustain
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…keep them from escaping. Wage labor replaces that entire system of work with one where people will volunteer, even compete, to be exploited and can be discarded at the whims of employers. Kevin Bales' _Disposable People_ [1] goes into this theme in depth. 1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178676.Disposable_People
on “Studying the demise of historic civilisations” ↗I quoted my source above: Disposable People by Kevin Bales. It discusses 6 case studies of modern day slavery: sex slavery in thailand, kidnapping for farm workers in Brazil, "old timey" slave ownership in Mauritania, and indentured servitude in…
on “The College-Cost Calamity” ↗…people legally own other people. There are many other kinds of slavery which involve people being held captive. That said, read the article, its very interesting. [1] From reading http://www.amazon.com/Disposable-People-Slavery-Global-Econo... a few years ago
on “Slavery’s last stronghold” ↗