Modern Slavery - A Global Perspective

Siddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path toward its abolition. This searing exposé¿including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors¿documents one of humanity¿s greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.

About the author

Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an associate professor of human trafficking and modern slavery at Nottingham University. Kara is the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2008), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and inspired the film Trafficked (2017), and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012), both from Columbia University Press. His most recent book is Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (2022).

Summary

Siddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path toward its abolition. This searing exposé—including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors—documents one of humanity’s greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.

Product details

• Authors: Siddharth Kara, Kara Siddharth
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.02.2023
• EAN: 9780231158473
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15847-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Human rights, civil rights