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 | | Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales ISBN-10: 9780520254701 ISBN-10: 0-520-25470-8 ISBN-13: 9780520254701 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25470-1 Hardcover 2007-09-28 University of California Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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 would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery. | ||
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Deeply Disturbing and Informative Just the word slavery is traumatic in the twenty-first century. As a rather typical American, I was not aware that slavery really existed any more, except in a few very remote and underdeveloped places. Ending Slavery opened my eyes to the realization that slavery is still alive and active (although very hidden) in the United States. It is also part of the production chain of many of the things that I buy on a daily basis. That is one reason to care. Another very basic reason to become aware of this issue is that, even today, it is the causes of diminished humanity. We are all linked together by our membership in the human family and, when one is abused, we all feel that abuse. Ending Slavery is a true call to action. It is well written and well researched. It uses real life experiences of slaves to enhance our understanding without sensationalizing their lives. For those who care about issues of poverty and human self-worth, this book is most highly recommended. | ||
Highly Recommend Great overview of the slave industry. Includes statistics, demographics, as well as personal stories, individual, and corporate acheivements. I highly recommend this for everyone concerned about humanity and the freedom of others on this planet. | ||
Great Reminder! Great book with great ideas! The book reminds me that there are needy individuals who are still under the mistreatment of slavery. We should fight against slavery by all means, at least financially. | ||
Mounds of passions Abundance of commitments "You powerful ones are unconcerned about your slaves; because of your position you lose touch with your brothers." Mozart "In 1865 slaves were freed in the United States and dumped into the economy without access to credit, education or political participation...what was done virtually guaranteed their long-term second -class citizenship...just like the American emancipation of 1865 the abolition of slavery in Nepal in 2000 was botched" In the beginning the author did not believe there was a global problem with trafficking, however his own birds eye experience shown to him by the very people in the field, has convinced him that slave trafficking was, is and maybe always has been a problem. Unknowingly or knowingly the author has shown the modern anti-slave campaign that was started in England then on to the U.S., during the early centuries, while successful in those country's was ultimately, transferred to other geopolitical areas then hidden, protected or disguised as something else, then brought back at least to the U.S. Starting in 1926 the Slavery Convention sponsored by the League of Nations, England sought to protect slavery in their Colonies and the U. S. excluded forced labor for private purposes, to protect Southern states that were still practicing slavery. India currently has the largest amount of slaves, however the slavery system set up in Japan was surprising. Brazil has the best systems/laws/ in place to fight their country's trafficking. The author offers a variety of real manageable strategies for ending slavery including compensation for the groups that were wronged, psychological evaluations, health care, jail time and confiscation of property as remedies and deterrents. Including a viable plan to get the United Nations, World Trade Organization, UNICEF, International Criminal Court and World Bank more involved in the antislavery fight. What is needed now is long term support for those in the field who are actively engaged in the abolition of slaves. | ||
Disturbing Truth with Hopeful Potential For anyone who has ever doubted that forced labor is still a problem in the 21st century when, in our inflated egotism over our supposed enlightenment, we believe that we in the developed and even developing world should have overcome such a barbaric practice, Bales' book is a much needed wake up call. For me personally, the most important facet was the early point that something is either slavery or it isn't, and we should call it what it is rather than, in my view, assuage our consciences with weasel adjective "virtual," "-like," or "near." The book is also informative in that it provides the reader with an inside look at how the slave trade is being combated in the modern world, sometimes successfully, and sometimes not. This insider's view is both helpful and disturbing. His advice as to how the individual can contribute to freeing slaves (and why its in all of our best interests to do so), both in big and small ways, should be helpful to anyone looking to make the world a more humane place by ending a truly inhumane practice. | ||