In his 1999 book, "Disposable People, "Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In "Ending Slavery, "Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Starred Review. Bales (Understanding Global Slavery) provides a guide for eliminating the plague of slavery that continues to this day, involving some 27 million slaves worldwide producing $13 billion in goods and services. Bales provides a thorough overview of slavery, including its history, its methods, the lives of its victims around the world and the conditions under which it flourishes (modern slaves "are cheap, and they are disposable"); most importantly, Bales has put together guides to action at every level, from the individual to the community to the United Nations, in a six-point plan that includes protecting, arming and cloning "the liberators," enacting and enforcing effective antislavery legislation and, perhaps most important (and overlooked), helping freed slaves heal ("liberation is just the first step on a long road"). Alongside those goals, Bales also considers practical matters, including fundraising, increasing awareness among the general public and convincing governments to pay attention: though "all political leaders denounce slavery," its numbers are still up, "perpetrators go uncaught... and the minimal resources needed to rehabilitate freed slaves are not available." Shocking, saddening, angering and inspiring, this volume reveals in full a side of the global market many Americans simply do not know about, clueing readers in on "the extent of their own involvement in global slavery," and the unthinkable injustices that could be taking place even in their local communities. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

At first glance, these two books about slavery today seem very similar. Each is written in an engaging, conversational tone, and each recounts the author's personal quest to examine and understand slavery now while offering brief historical surveys of the subject. Antislavery activist Bales (emeritus, Roehampton Univ., London; Understanding Global Slavery) travels the globe from India to Ghana to the United States interviewing slaves and weaving in a radical reading of the global civil rights movement from World War II. He relies so heavily on firsthand accounts that his book verges on being oral history. Pure oral history might have been better, but Bales inserts his memoirs of his activism along with pleas for funding and tips for starting your own movement. His book is the angrier of the two, meant to provoke as much as to inform.Bowe (coeditor, GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs) has written a book more for thehead than the spleen. He focuses his study on Florida, Oklahoma, and the U.S. Commonwealth of Saipan. While Bales focuses on what "they" are doing to slaves, Bowe focuses on what "we" are doing to slaves. His extended examinations discuss the economic motivations and impact of slavery today but make facile connections between consumerism and slave owning and often "show" more than they "tell." The information and conclusions of both books are largely the same, but the tone is a vital distinction. Bowe saves the bulk of the moralizing (a fatalistic diatribe against American culture) for his conclusion, while Bales's invective seems unrelenting throughout, even if one agrees with it. Both books are accessible starting points for a difficult topic and are recommended, as such, for undergraduate and public libraries. Robert Perret, Southwestern Coll., Winfield, KS Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Kevin Bales is President of Free the Slaves, the U.S. sister organization of Britain's Anti-Slavery International. He is Professor Emeritus at Roehampton University in London. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Introduction	1
1 The Challenge: Understanding the World of New Slavery	5
2 Building the Plan	21
3 Rescuing Slaves Today	36
4 Home-Grown Freedom	61
5 Governments: Carrying the Biggest Stick	96
6 Global Problem, Global Reach	139
7 Ending the (Product) Chain	177
8 Ending Poverty to End Slavery to End Poverty to End Slavery	213
Conclusion: The Beginning of the End of Slavery	229
Coda: What You Can Do to End Slavery	233
Appendix Measuring the Effectiveness of Antislavery Work	237
Notes	243
Index	255

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