wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Jednorazowi ludzie
ISBN: 9788364134289 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. We współczesnym świecie niewolnictwo jest procederem nielegalnym. Mimo to kilkadziesiąt milionów ludzi nadal wegetuje pod jarzmem tej prastarej formy opresji, a ich liczba nieustannie rośnie. Kevin Bales opisuje różne postacie nowego niewolnictwa; wyjaśnia, z czego się ono bierze, jak funkcjonuje i dlaczego tak dobrze radzi sobie w realiach zglobalizowanej gospodarki. W tej poruszającej i gruntownie udokumentowanej historii Kevin Bales prowadzi nas od pakistańskich cegielni i tajskich domów publicznych do nowoczesnych biur międzynarodowych korporacji i… dalej. Proponuje,...
We współczesnym świecie niewolnictwo jest procederem nielegalnym. Mimo to kilkadziesiąt milionów ludzi nadal wegetuje pod jarzmem tej prastarej f...
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46,06 zł |
To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
ISBN: 9780801445736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains ninety-five narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe. Told in the words of slaves themselves, the narratives movingly and... Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imp... |
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563,43 zł |
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9780520272910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a -new slavery, - one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead,...
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. K...
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153,76 zł |
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves
ISBN: 9780520257962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments...
In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred yea...
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126,30 zł |
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
ISBN: 9780812995763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains comes a powerful and captivating examination of two entwined global crises: environmental destruction and human trafficking--and an inspiring, bold plan for how we can solve them.
A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales has traveled to some of the world's most dangerous places documenting and battling human trafficking. In the course of his reporting, Bales began to notice a pattern emerging: Where... For readers of such crusading works of nonfiction as Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mo...
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118,19 zł |
New Slavery: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9781851098156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "New Slavery: A Reference Handbook" is as scholarly as it is shocking--a gripping account of modern slavery, from Pakistan to Paris, Nepal to New York. From bonded laborers in India and prostitutes in Thailand to illegal domestic workers in Kuwait, Tokyo, and London, this book surveys the grim and violent world of contemporary forced labor, human trafficking, and slavery. More commonly associated with the horrors of 19th-century cotton plantations or Nazi concentration camps, slave labor remains alive and well. Despite antislavery laws in almost every country, slavery today is booming--... "New Slavery: A Reference Handbook" is as scholarly as it is shocking--a gripping account of modern slavery, from Pakistan to Paris, Nepal to New Y... |
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274,58 zł |
Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader
ISBN: 9780520245075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expose, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people--in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended. Written to raise awareness and deepen understanding, and...
Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised expose, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global...
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137,29 zł |
To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
ISBN: 9780801474385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There are twenty-seven million slaves alive today, more than at any point in history, and they are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica. To Plead Our Own Cause contains ninety-five narratives by slaves and former slaves from around the globe. Told in the words of slaves themselves, the narratives... Boys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imp... |
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114,72 zł |
Modern Slavery: A Beginner's Guide
ISBN: 9781851688159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) There are 27 million slaves alive today - more than at any point in history. Written by the world s leading experts, this shocking examination combines original research with first-hand stories from the slaves themselves to provide a reliable account of one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us today. Looking to the future, the authors offer hope with a global blueprint that proposes to end slavery in our lifetime. Kevin Bales is president of Free the Slaves. He lives in Takoma Park, MD. Zoe Trodd and Alex Kent Williamson are history and pathology specialists respectively at Harvard...
There are 27 million slaves alive today - more than at any point in history. Written by the world s leading experts, this shocking examination combine...
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51,35 zł |
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
ISBN: 9780520268661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department store. In these pages we also meet some unexpected slaveholders, such as a 27-year old middle-class Texas housewife who is currently serving a...
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficki...
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137,29 zł |
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
ISBN: 9780521188784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the past hundred years, the social survey has been a major tool of social investigation, and its use has also been linked to social reform. Starting with the landmark surveys of Charles Booth in London and Jane Addams in Chicago, social surveys in both Britain and the Unites States investigated poverty, unemployment and other difficult social conditions. While in Britain there was marked continuity between the early studies of Booth and others, in the US the social survey movement exercised curiously little impact upon empirical social science. This 2001 book traces the history of the...
For the past hundred years, the social survey has been a major tool of social investigation, and its use has also been linked to social reform. Starti...
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303,68 zł |
Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa
ISBN: 9780821420027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the end of slavery in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present.
The formal abolition of the slave trade and slavery did not end the demand for servile women and children. Contemporary forms of human trafficking are deeply interwoven with their historical precursors, and scholars and activists need to be informed about the long history of... Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collecti...
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146,02 zł |