Disposable People (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kevin Bales
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Economics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Economics
- Subjects: Slavery or slaves, Prostitution or prostitutes, Poverty or poor people, Asia or Asians
Kevin Bales, a professor at the University of Surrey, England, has made clarifying the causes and forms of contemporary slavery his principal topic of research and is considered to be a leader in this field of economics. His book’s title, Disposable People, correctly announces that he practices social science with a moral edge, for he finds and reveals how victims of the new slavery are often robbed of both body and soul.
Concerned that some think the end of legal slavery meant the end of slavery, while others have only slight knowledge of instances of global slavery...
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