I nuovi schiavi. La merce umana nell'economia globale

In his book, Bales recounts how the escaped slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was invited to give a keynote speech for a large Fourth of July celebration in New York in 1852. Instead of delivering a rousing speech about the greatness of living in freedom, Douglass basically asked how we can Leggi tutto

"I nuovi schiavi sono strumenti usa e getta per far denaro" Questo libro fa parte della categoria: "leggi e guarda il mondo con occhi nuovi." Perchè anche se pensi già di sapere non ne sai mai abbastanza. L'analisi delle moderne forme di schiavitù può sembrare datata (pubblicata nel 1999) ma in rea Leggi tutto

The horror! The horror! Chains do not a slave make, nor jail bars. Modern-day slavery, defined as men, women, and children working without pay, unable to leave their job space and physically abused for terror's sake, is estimated by Kevin Bales to trap at least 35 million people worldwide, and that

I read this book for my history class. I really enjoyed the way this book was written. It was written more as a story than an information heavy textbook. This book talked about how slavery still exists in our world today, just in a different form that it did in the past. We explored slavery in Brazi Leggi tutto

Don't want to sound too dramatic, but everyone should read this book.

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy presents an at times quite sobering view of the survival of what might still be called slavery in the 20th (and 21st) century. It does so via five case histories oriented around the persistence of slavery in Thailand, Mauritania, Brazil, Pakistan

This is an important book. Despite its defects I can highly recommend it to pretty much everyone because the entire world would benefit from its being read. I greatly admire Bales for his part in spreading the word on modern-day slavery, and I plan on doing my part by telling people and passing the

If a friend hadn't invited me to a discussion group on this book, I never would have picked it up. Somehow the author managed to interview current and former slaves from Mauritania to Paris, retell their stories, contextualize the economic systems that slavery exists in, and still not get bogged dow Leggi tutto