Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective

Siddharth Kara is a chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of profit. Kara offers a comprehensive grounding in the realities of modern-day servitude, drawing on sixteen years of field research in more than fifty countries. He has developed a business and economic analysis of slavery based on metrics and data that attest to the enormous scale and functioning of these systems of exploitation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2023
Publisher: Columbia University Press

Siddharth Kara is a relentless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has painstakingly documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to expose the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of profit—and to connect the suffering of the enslaved to the day-to-day lives of consumers in the West. In Modern Slavery, Kara leverages his extensive expertise to illustrate the astonishing scale of slavery and provide a concrete roadmap toward its abolition. From labor trafficking in the U.S. agricultural sector to sex trafficking in Nigeria to debt bondage in the Southeast Asian construction sector to forced labor in the Thai seafood industry, Kara paints a vivid portrait of the myriad faces and forms of slavery, offering a comprehensive understanding of the realities of modern-day servitude. Drawing on sixteen years of field research in over fifty countries worldwide, including revealing interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors, Kara outlines the key manifestations of modern slavery and how it is deeply embedded in global supply chains. Slavery offers immense profits with minimal risk by exploiting vulnerable subclasses whose brutalization is tacitly accepted by the current global economic order. Kara has developed a comprehensive business and economic analysis of slavery based on metrics and data that attest to the enormous scale and functioning of these systems of exploitation. Beyond this data-driven approach, Modern Slavery unflinchingly portrays the torments endured by the powerless. This searing exposé documents one of humanity's greatest wrongs and lays out the framework for a comprehensive plan to eradicate it.

Weight: 524g
Dimension: 149 x 229 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780231158473