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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
By K. Bales, published in '99.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8428.html
"As fine and accessible a work of investigative reporting as any of the best
that have appeared over the last decade. Serious, impassioned, and
unflinching, he has told a story that is too often ignored, and that, as he
points out, shames us all."-- The National Post (Canada)
"If you read no other book this year, read this one." --The Santa Rosa Press
Democrat
"Kevin Bales knows pretty much all there is to know about slavery in the
contemporary world. In Disposable People he parlays a combination of fact
and indignation into a compelling indictment of an aspect of globalism most
of us prefer not to think about. This is a timely and important expose.
Bales has cast a little light into a very dark place."-- The Globe & Mail
"An insightful overview [and] a powerful expos� of human tragedy."-- Dallas
Morning News
"A numbing indictiment of our blindness to the new forms of slavery
engendered by the global economy."--Kirkus Reviews
"A book replete with both fascinating reportage and acute analysis."--Times
Literary Supplement
"At its best an empirically informed general discussion of slavery in the
modern world economy." --Times Higher Education Supplement
"Bales is to be congratulated for bringing the immensity of the slavery
problem to our attention. News accounts have highlighted the horrors of
child labor, of exploited women in the developing world and abuses of
workers in Latin America, but Bales's work shows how widespread and
multi-faceted are the many problems that lead to treating people as
disposable assets."--Joyce M. Davis, The Boston Book Review
"This sober, well-researched, pioneering study . . . is about the first to
explore slavery in its modern international guise. . . . A convincing and
moving book. One can only hope that it will draw some attention to the
terrible phenomenon it describes."--The Financial Times
"Blood-chilling facts and clear analysis."--Booklist
"A gripping account of the major forms slavery takes around the world today,
introducing enslaved people, their families, and entire social strata
deprived of the most basic rights. . . . Disposable People is an eloquent
plea. . . . Avoiding easy moralism and sensationalism alike, it discloses
the daily soul-destroying brutality of slavery on our planet today."--Paul
Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor
"Because of globalization, Bales argues, every consumer is linked to slavery
and the final chapter explains practical ways of helping to bring it to an
end. Begin by buying this book-all proceeds go to the international fight
against slavery."--The Sunday Tribune
"The system is chillingly described in Disposable People. . . "--New York
Times
"Convincing, emotionally wrenching, and freighted with appropriate moral
indignation, Kevin Bales's startling presentation shows us that while the
general public is convinced slavery is a historical phenomenon of the
ancient past . . . it is in actuality a widespread tragedy found worldwide
and on a large scale. This book innovatively and usefully describes the
permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and
age."--Richard Pierre Claude, editor of Human Rights Quarterly
"A timely and fascinating book . . . of crucial importance. Few people
realize that the increasing globalization of the economy has led to the use
of coerced labor in many parts of the globe. . . . Bales has traveled widely
and has gathered a great amount of shocking and disturbing
information."--David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery and Abolition, Yale University
"A well-researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expos� of modern-day
slavery with well-thought-out strategies for what to do to combat this
scourge. None of us is allowed the luxury of imagined impotence. We can do
something about it."--Desmond Tutu
DESCRIPTION (back to top)
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million
people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions.
Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in
Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational
corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil,
Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new
slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are
not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains
Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable.
Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous
population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's
labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The
revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has
dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for
enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred
corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have
protected the most vulnerable individuals.
Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public
officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He
observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware
that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged
miner if the result is starvation.
Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples
of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery
International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights
Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of
raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively
target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery.
Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery
in today's global economy.
CONTENTS (back to top)
CONTENTS
1. The New Slavery
2. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child
3. Mauritania: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
4. Brazil: Life on the Edge
5. Pakistan: When Is a Slave Not a Slave?
6. India: The Ploughman's Lunch
7. What Can Be Done?
Coda: Five Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (back to top)
Kevin Bales is a Principal Lecturer at the Roehampton Institute, University
of Surrey, England, and the world's leading expert on contemporary slavery.
----- Original Message -----
From: "flw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: The Truth About Black Slavery And The Confederate Flag
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > In a message dated 6/18/01 3:06:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >Several of Africa's proudest empires were built on the
> > >sale of slaves. For centuries Africa's chief export was human beings.
When > >>Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks of "my African
> ancestors' struggle for
> > >freedom," she doesn't know what she's talking about. Slavery was an
African
> > >institution long before it spread to the South, and there was no
abolition
> > >movement to trouble it.
>
> >>>>>>> >> Gee, I guess there is no "history" of slaves being held by
other races.
> > >>>>>>>>What a crock of self-serving scholarship. And the gentleman
should read more
> >>>>>>>>> than one book on slavery before baring his ignorance to the
world.
> > >>>>>>>> MHO
> >>>>>>>>>> Om
> >>>>>>>>>> K
>
> It seems the above statement about Africa is historically accurate.
> I don't think Sobran ever wrote that only Africa promoted the slave trade.
>
> Of course slavery has always been practiced by Europeans in Europe.
> Thats where the word "slavery" (i.e. "slavs") comes from.
> Huge numbers of slaves taken as war booty have been transferred
> all over the world since ancient times. Many modern day Italians can
> trace their linage to Israelis brought to Rome as slaves after the
Diaspora.
> A recent article revealed that some old English families have African
> DNA from African slaves brought to England by the Romans.
>
> Africans have also owned white slaves. The North African Moors
> owned large numbers of white slaves in Spain before the 15th century.
> We haven't even begun to discuss slavery in China (millions upon
> millions).
>
> As a matter of fact more white slaves aka "indentured servants" (5 million
> over 200 years) were brought to the North America then black African
slaves.
> Probably over 25% of these white slaves suffered death and extreme
> suffering as "indentured servants." But of course millions of poor
European
> serfs suffered the same fate without leaving their villages.
>
> Slavery and serfdom has always been an equal opportunity employer.
> flw
>
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