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BOOK LAUNCH
DISPOSABLE PEOPLE: NEW SLAVERY IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
By Kevin Bales, University of California Press, 1999,
£19.95
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"A numbing indictment of our blindness
to the new forms of slavery engendered by the global economy."
Kirkus Review
"Properly informed and persistently mobilised, public opinion could
issue new marching orders to protect the most vulnerable among us
Disposable People is an eloquent plea toward that end. Avoiding
easy moralism and sensationalism alike, it discloses the daily soul-destroying
brutality of slavery on our planet today.” Christian Science Monitor.
"This book is of crucial importance gathering a great amount of
shocking and disturbing information - it is timely and fascinating!”
DB Davis, Director of Yale Center for the Study of Slavery.
Although legal slavery is a thing of the past, slavery itself endures,
and most people in the world are unaware that it exists. Disposable
People: New Slavery in the Global Economy should help end that
ignorance. Author Kevin Bales an Anti-Slavery trustee provides
a gripping account of slavery around the world, and shows how the
global economy links each of us to slavery through our purchases and
even our pensions. An accessible read which seeks to provide solutions,
Disposable People looks to learn lessons from other more recent international
campaigns, such as the struggle against apartheid and the environmental
movement.
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