Name: Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia
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Author: Siddharth Kara
ISBN: 9780231158497

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Siddharth Kara

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780231158497

Synopsis "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia "

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.

Siddharth Kara

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Writer, researcher, screenwriter, and activist against modern slavery. He is a global professor at the British Academy, visiting scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, associate professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and part of the Rights Lab’s Measurement and Geographies Programme. He is the author of three books on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017). Kara adapted his first book into a Hollywood movie, Trafficked, and is the author of the reports: Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector (Harvard, 2014), and Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-Based Garment Sector (UC Berkeley, 2019). Over twenty-one years of research, traveling to more than fifty countries, he has mapped the global networks of human trafficking, explored the dangerous underworld of sex slaves victims of trafficking, and tracked the global supply chains of numerous basic products tainted by slavery and child labor. Kara advises various UN agencies and Governments on policy and legislation against slavery. He has appeared in media such as CNN, BBC, The Guardian, CNBC, or National Geographic.

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