Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (USED)

Description: Product Description : Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia Siddharth Karas Sex Trafficking has become a critical resource for its revelations into an unconscionable business and its detailed analysis of the trades immense economic benefits and human cost This volume is Karas second explosive study of slavery this time focusing on the deeply entrenched and wholly unjust system of bonded laborDrawing on eleven years of research in India Nepal Bangladesh and Pakistan Kara delves into an ancient and everevolving mode of slavery that ensnares roughly six out of every ten slaves in the world and generates profits that exceeded 176 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 cyclonewracked southwestern Bangladesh to the Thar desert on the IndiaPakistan border to uncover the brutish realities of such industries as handwovencarpet making tea and rice farming construction brick manufacture and frozenshrimp 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 Karas 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( it is an used product )

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