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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
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Description
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of contemporary slavery reaches from Pakistan's brick kilns and Thailand's brothels to various multinational corporations. His investigations reveal how the tragic emergence of a "new slavery" is inextricably linked to the global economy.--From publisher description.
4) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
10) Commodification of sexual labor: the contribution of internet communities to prostitution reform
Author
Publisher
Dissertation. com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Overview: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes,...
16) Tricked
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Modern day slavery is alive and well in the United States, as thousands of victims are trafficked throughout the country to satisfy America's three billion dollar annual sex trafficking industry. Meet the pimps, the johns, the police, the parents, and the victims of the thriving sex trade.
18) Somebody's daughter: the hidden story of America's prostituted children and the battle to save them
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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