Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective By Siddharth Kara (Hardback,
2017)

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Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world He has documented the realities of human trafficking & forced labor in order to reveal the degrading & dehumanizing system that strips people of their dignity for the sake of profit-and to link the suffering of the enslaved to the day-to-day lives of consumers in the West In Modern Slavery Kara draws on his many years of expertise to demonstrate the scope of slavery & offer a concrete path to its abolition From labor trafficking in the US agricultural sector to sex trafficking in Nigeria to forced labor in the Thai seafood industry Kara depicts the myriad faces & forms of slavery providing a comprehensive grounding in the realities of modern-day servitude Drawing on sixteen years of field research in more than sixty countries around the globe-including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved & their oppressors-Kara sets out the key manifestations of modern slavery & how it is embedded in global supply chains Enslavement offers immense profits at minimal risk through the exploitation of vulnerable subclasses whose brutalization is tacitly accepted by the current global economic order Kara has developed a business & economic analysis of slavery based on metrics & data that attest to the scale & functioning of these systems of exploitation Beyond this data-driven approach Modern Slavery unflinchingly portrays the torments endured by the powerless This searing expose documents one of humanity's greatest wrongs & lays out the framework for a comprehensive plan to eradicate it