{"product_id":"modern-slavery-9780231158473","title":"Modern Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path toward its abolition. This searing exposé—including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors—documents one of humanity’s greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtraordinary and shocking book. -- Alex De Waal * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eA truthful, powerful look into slavery....Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is an especially well written, compelling book. -- Brett A. Berliner * Human Rights Review *\u003cbr\u003eExpert. Investment banker. Consultant. Harvard instructor. Researcher. Activist. Screenplay writer. Poet. The author of \u003ci\u003eModern Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e delivers horrific news and testimonies with phrases here and there so beautiful that the reader is lifted out of desperation enough to turn the next page. For all my association with the world of slavery, I’ve never known anyone remotely like Siddharth Kara. He grounds the reader through statistics and definitions before launching into scenes more true than any statistic or definition could ever be. No reader, however carefully clad in hyper-rationality, will emerge unchallenged and unchanged. -- Swanee Hunt, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria\u003cbr\u003eKara not only harnesses data and economic analysis to expose the ongoing shame of modern slavery, but reveals its underlying humanity—the cruelty of traffickers, the dignity of survivors, and the complicity of consumers. With both academic rigor and passion, Kara challenges us all to confront this global scourge. -- Luis CdeBaca, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons\u003cbr\u003eInsightful, awe-inspiring, and hopeful. This book demonstrates the depraved depths to which humanity has sunk in its efforts to extract profit through the exploitation of human beings and highlights the factors that prevent us from making progress with eliminating these practices. Siddharth Kara writes with great love and compassion for survivors of slavery, human and organ trafficking, and forced labor, and his personal stories and insightful analyses force us to renew our commitment to creating a world free of slavery in which human dignity and human rights can triumph once again. A must-read for all those concerned about human rights and labor exploitation. -- Urmila Bhoola, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery\u003cbr\u003eAs we bring big data, analytics, and technology to the fight to end modern slavery, Siddharth Kara is here to hold us all to account on the realities, misery, and savagery of slavery.  No one else can serve this powerful and important role. While many in this fight are sympathetic to the suffering, Kara not only brings true expertise, he brings true empathy.  Read this book to immerse  yourself in both. -- Jean Baderschneider, CEO, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides an overview of the different forms of modern-day slavery, as well as a framework for the eradication of the phenomenon. Siddharth Kara uses case studies to exemplify the cultural norms that perpetuate trafficking and provides an extensive analysis of data through a unique business-model approach. Using a combination of rigorous analysis and anecdotal stories, Kara delves into subfields in modern-day slavery that have rarely been covered. -- Jennifer Bryson Clark, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eA Global Handbook on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864252920151,"sku":"9780231158473","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231158473.jpg?v=1722271083","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-slavery-9780231158473","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}