Binding: Paperback
Description: Siddharth Kara's Sex Trafficking has become a critical resource for its revelations into an unconscionable business and its detailed analysis of the trade's immense economic benefits and human cost. This volume is Kara's second explosive study of slavery this time focusing on the deeply entrenched and wholly unjust system of bonded labor. Drawing on eleven years of research in India Nepal Bangladesh and Pakistan Kara delves into an ancient and ever - evolving mode of slavery that ensnares roughly six out of every ten slaves in the world and generates profits that exceeded $17.6 billion in 2011. In addition to providing a thorough economic historical and legal overview of bonded labor Kara travels to the far reaches of South Asia from cyclone - wracked southwestern Bangladesh to the Thar desert on the India - Pakistan border to uncover the brutish realities of such industries as hand - woven - carpet making tea and rice farming construction brick manufacture and frozen - shrimp production. He describes the violent enslavement of millions of impoverished men women and children who toil in the production of numerous products at minimal cost to the global market. He also follows supply chains directly to Western consumers vividly connecting regional bonded labor practices to the appetites of the world. Kara's pioneering analysis encompasses human trafficking child labor and global security and he concludes with specific initiatives to eliminate the system of bonded labor from South Asia once and for all.
Title: Bonded Labor Tackling The System Of Slavery In South Asia
Author(s): Kara Siddharth
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231158497
Pages: 336 Pages, B&W Illus.: 21,, Figures: 5,
Publication Date: 5/6/2014
Category: Politics & Government