Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780231528023
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Human trafficking; Prostitution; Slavery; Globalization -- Economic aspects;

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 exposé--including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors--documents one of humanity's greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.

Siddharth Kara is a senior fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a senior fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2008) and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012), both from Columbia University Press.

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