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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
- K. Bales
- Economics
- 1 March 2000
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' disturbing story of slavery today…
Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader
- K. Bales
- History, Biology
- 2005
List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Understanding Slavery Today Chapter 2. Slavery and the Human Right to Evil Chapter 3. No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude: A…
What Predicts Human Trafficking?
- K. Bales
- Political Science
- 1 September 2007
If the international community has achieved agreement on the definition of human trafficking, we still have only a partial understanding of what drives it. We know that poverty and vulnerability…
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves
- K. Bales
- History, Law
- 28 September 2007
In his 1999 book, "Disposable People", 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…
MEASURING THE PROPENSITY TO VOLUNTEER
- K. Bales
- Psychology
- 1 September 1996
As charities are expected to take on more and more of the provision of services to the disadvantaged, they will be calling on volunteers to support that work. The use of volunteers means important…
Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States
- K. Bales, Laurel E. Fletcher, E. Stover
- Economics
- 1 September 2004
Forced labor is a serious and pervasive problem in the United States. At any given time ten thousand or more people work as forced laborers in scores of cities and towns across the country. And it is…
The Social survey in historical perspective 1880-1940
List of figures List of tables List of maps Notes on contributors Preface 1. The social survey in historical perspective Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sylar 2. The social survey in…
Expendable People: Slavery in the Age of Globalization(1)
- K. Bales
- History, Economics
- 22 March 2000
"Once officially abolished, slavery was transformed: adopted as an illicit enterprise, it has mirrored changes in the general economy. No longer viewed as property, people today are seen merely as…
Testing a Theory of Modern Slavery
- K. Bales
- Economics
- 2004
It is a simple yet potent truth that slavery is a relationship between (at least) two people. Like other common and patterned relationships in human societies, slavery takes various forms and…
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