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Read * Slavery Today (Groundwork Guides) PDF by ^ Kevin Bales, Rebecca Cornell eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Slavery Today (Groundwork Guides) Marian E. Pontz said High school World Cultures Teacher Sees Need for ALL Students to Read this Book. As a high school World Cultures teacher, who for many years, has taught my students about modern slavery, I am constantly looking for the best resources to excite my students into action. I have read all of Kevin Bales' books including the modern slavery "bible", Disposable People, but I find them too lengthy to bring into a semester course. This new book, also written by the modern slavery auth
| Title | : | Slavery Today (Groundwork Guides) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0888997736 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 141 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
Marian E. Pontz said High school World Cultures Teacher Sees Need for ALL Students to Read this Book. As a high school World Cultures teacher, who for many years, has taught my students about modern slavery, I am constantly looking for the best resources to excite my students into action. I have read all of Kevin Bales' books including the modern slavery "bible", Disposable People, but I find them too lengthy to bring into a semester course. This new book, also written by the modern slavery authority Kevin Bales, combines all of the successful elements of his other books- anecdotal evidence, statistics, personal stories, world government reactions and ways to help but does it in an . A great basic guide to modern slavery Written for High Schools students, this book is more than the author intended. It is a wonderful introduction to the subject for anyone.. john corrigan said full of shocking information. This book was a true eye opener. I had no idea how big this issue was. The book is also a fast read
This means that it’s worse to be a slave today than ever before. This huge surplus of impoverished people has pushed the human price tag to only $100, the cost of a pair of designer” jeans. Forced to work in back-breaking, under- or unpaid jobs from agricultural work to prostitution, slaves today men and women, old and young are trapped in the same spiral of brutality and control they have endured for centuries, with one crucial difference: a collapse in the price of human beings. Globalization, governmental corruption, and the population explosion have thrust billions of people into the pool of potential slaves. Slavery Today traces the "products" created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes. It addresses the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while presenting solutions and ways readers can get involved in the growing global anti-slavery movement.
But sidebars throughout the book tell individual stories, including an interview with one child. --Hazel Rochman . From Booklist Authoritative and passionate, this small book by leaders of the antislavery movement is a horrifying account of contemporary slavery across the globe. Grades 10-12. Instead, the authors give realistic suggestions about how to move past outrage and into sustainable efforts towards change. Part of the Groundwork Guides series, it discusses numbers (about 27 million slaves today), causes (including war, corruption, and poverty), and conditions (today, slaves are cheap and that makes them disposable, thrown out when weak or sick), all within an overview that shows that human trafficking now is often in children, whether as soldiers, prostitutes, or forced labor. For readers who want to get involved, he is clear that the b
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