-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 23:54:05 -0500 (CDT) From: MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; Thanks janet Eaton University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8428.html Kevin Bales Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy Here's another book for our possible study as we act on globalization - I've only seen THIS review, but I get the impression that prison is not included among the institutions which practice slavery. You must recall that in 1865, the US Constitution's 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude " except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ". Bales investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. In contrast to the older from of slavery as we knew it, the new slaves are ... cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery, one being the revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture that has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. . Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan..... "Disposable People" is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy. Michael ==================================== Publication Date: April 1999 298 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 14 b/w photographs, 2 tables, 1 line drawing Subjects: Sociology; Politics; Economics & Business; Labor Studies Rights: World Paperback: $14.95 0-520-22463-9 �9.50 "As fine and accessible a work of investigative reporting as any of the best that have appeared over the last decade. Serious, impassioned, and unflinching, he has told a story that is too often ignored, and that, as he points out, shames us all." -- The National Post (Canada) "If you read no other book this year, read this one." --The Santa Rosa Press Democrat "Kevin Bales knows pretty much all there is to know about slavery in the contemporary world. In Disposable People he parlays a combination of fact and indignation into a compelling indictment of an aspect of globalism most of us prefer not to think about. This is a timely and important expose. Bales has cast a little light into a very dark place. " -- The Globe & Mail "An insightful overview [and] a powerful expos� of human tragedy." -- Dallas Morning News "A numbing indictiment of our blindness to the new forms of slavery engendered by the global economy."--Kirkus Reviews "A book replete with both fascinating reportage and acute analysis." --Times Literary Supplement "At its best an empirically informed general discussion of slavery in the modern world economy." --Times Higher Education Supplement "Bales is to be congratulated for bringing the immensity of the slavery problem to our attention. News accounts have highlighted the horrors of child labor, of exploited women in the developing world and abuses of workers in Latin America, but Bales's work shows how widespread and multi-faceted are the many problems that lead to treating people as disposable assets."--Joyce M. Davis, The Boston Book Review "This sober, well-researched, pioneering study . . . is about the first to explore slavery in its modern international guise. . . . A convincing and moving book. One can only hope that it will draw some attention to the terrible phenomenon it describes."--The Financial Times "Blood-chilling facts and clear analysis."--Booklist "A gripping account of the major forms slavery takes around the world today, introducing enslaved people, their families, and entire social strata deprived of the most basic rights. . . . Disposable People is an eloquent plea. . . . Avoiding easy moralism and sensationalism alike, it discloses the daily soul-destroying brutality of slavery on our planet today."--Paul Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor "Convincing, emotionally wrenching, and freighted with appropriate moral indignation, Kevin Bales's startling presentation shows us that while the general public is convinced slavery is a historical phenomenon of the ancient past . . . it is in actuality a widespread tragedy found worldwide and on a large scale. This book innovatively and usefully describes the permutations of an ancient tradition as it exists in this modern day and age."--Richard Pierre Claude, editor of Human Rights Quarterly "A timely and fascinating book . . . of crucial importance. Few people realize that the increasing globalization of the economy has led to the use of coerced labor in many parts of the globe. . . . Bales has traveled widely and has gathered a great amount of shocking and disturbing information."--David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition, Yale University "A well-researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expos� of modern-day slavery with well-thought-out strategies for what to do to combat this scourge. None of us is allowed the luxury of imagined impotence. We can do something about it."--Desmond Tutu 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's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals. Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy. CONTENTS: 1. The New Slavery 2. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child 3. Mauritania: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten 4. Brazil: Life on the Edge 5. Pakistan: When Is a Slave Not a Slave? 6. India: The Ploughman's Lunch 7. What Can Be Done? Coda: Five Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery Kevin Bales is a Principal Lecturer at the Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey, England, and the world's leading expert on contemporary slavery. =========================================== -- For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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