Ending Slavery; How We Free Today's Slaves

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 261, [7] pages. Illustrations. Coda, Appendix. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Kevin Brian Bales CMG (born 1952) is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, co-author of the Global Slavery Index, and was a co-founder and previously president of Free the Slaves. Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization. Dr. Bales has written extensively on modern slavery. Perhaps his best-known book is Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (1999; revised edition, 2004, further edition 2012), a firsthand analysis of the operations of five slave-based businesses: prostitution in Thailand, selling of water in Mauritania, production of charcoal in Brazil, general agriculture in India, and brickmaking in Pakistan. Archbishop Desmond Tutu called the book "a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery". 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, global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this 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. "[Bales] makes use of stories and data from his organization's network of activists, operating wherever people are held against their will, controlled through violence and exploited for money. He makes a surprisingly hopeful case for wiping out slavery, based on a spreading revulsion against the practice and better connections between anti-slavery groups pressuring their governments to enforce existing laws."-Seattle Times.