Blood and earth: modern slavery
Rebecca Fricker reviews a new book by Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales is co-founder of Free the Slaves, consultant to the UN Global Program against Trafficking of Human Beings and author of a widely praised book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.
Don’t talk about how the big people eat at the big table
These words, spoken by an official to a human rights activist in the Congo, could equally apply to most companies and their customers. Fortunately, Kevin Bales is prepared to talk about how consumption of technology, jewellery and food at our ‘big table’ contributes to slavery and ecocide elsewhere in the world.
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