audiobook Islam in America (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series) by Jane Smith in History

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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.