| | |  | Keyword Search: O’Reilly Security | Home » Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery | | | | | | | Description: | | Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such "processing," and can be repeatedly "consumed." Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, in the first journey of its kind, he traveled across four continents to investigate these crimes and take stock of their devastating human toll. Kara made several trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. He witnessed firsthand the sale of human beings into slavery, interviewed over four hundred slaves, and confronted some of those who trafficked and exploited them. In this book, Kara provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking. Kara describes the local factors and global economic forces that gave rise to this and other forms of modern slavery over the past two decades and quantifies, for the first time, the size, growth, and profitability of each industry. Finally, he identifies the sectors of the sex trafficking industry that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and recommends the specific legal, tactical, and policy measures that would target these vulnerable sectors and help to abolish this form of slavery, once and for all. The author will donate a portion of the proceeds of this book to the anti-slavery organization, Free the Slaves. | | | Features: | |
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| Siddharth Kara | | Hardcover:
| 320 pages | | Publisher:
| Columbia University Press | | Publication Date:
| October 24, 2008 | | Language:
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 Get a dose of realityMay 24, 2010
Siddharth Kara has laid bare a sordid reality of our world: sex slavery. Not only has he done so with statistics and even economic analyses ranging from the international slave trade to the massage parlors of L.A., he has researched personally and at great risk. His accounts of doleful lives and his limning of the faces of actual slaves caught in this horrific web make this an urgently intense book.
I am filled with admiration for the courage and persistence it took to create this essential text. What could have been a dry overview of distant distresses has, with Mr. Kara's recounting of his own delvings, been made something so immediate that the reader has a sense of the grit and smells, human tragedies, and human perversion involved. An examination of not only sex trafficking but of the extent and details of modern day slavery in general, Kara's focus moves from Italy to Moldova to Albania, to Thailand, the U.S., and Nigeria.
Offered in this book are some possibilities, some possible tactics and overall strategies for alleviation of this disgrace to humanity, with a good grasp of the realities of the problems and their ramifications. Buy and read this book!
Reviewed by David Sutton
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Sex Trafficking: Inside The Business of Modern SlaveryOct 23, 2009
Author Siddharth Kara's analytical approach to the underlying economic and political issues driving the business of modern slavery is unprecedented. He not only reveals the incredibly dark and immoral side of this industry through very personal interviews with victims, but also comprehensively outlines a strategy for eradicating modern slavery. His approach skillfully addresses the global economic trends in addition to local country by country dynamics that have led to the growth of human sex trafficking.
I have yet to read or encounter any work that compares to Mr. Kara's depiction of this serious issue. The book not only strikes an emotional chord, but also provides a succinct quantifiable analysis of why this exploitation occurs in our world today and what must be done to eliminate it. "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" is unquestionably a groundbreaking approach to this subject and I highly encourage others to read this book. We all must develop individual efforts to bring about change and Mr. Kara's work is certainly a call to action that cannot be ignored.
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Heart wrenching, provocative and masterfully written!Sep 21, 2009
This visceral tale of modern slavery and sex trafficking is not for the faint of heart. Part text book, part novel, the depth and detail of Kara's story brings readers face to face with the tragic reality of slavery's bitter existence. In his book, Kara traverses the globe and gives a first hand account of the reasons for, and the damage done by, slavery. Kara concludes the book with a comprehensive breakdown of how to end slavery. Want to find out what the greatest thinkers of our time are reading? Then pick up this book.
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All About What You'd Rather Not KnowAug 04, 2009
It takes commitment to read a couple hundred pages of up close, totally documented, painful and painfully accurate accounts of the illicit but widely acknowledged trade in young women. If you're the father of daughters, as I am, this is a book that should be read not just as an account of what, at worst, might occur in remote segments of the larger world but as metaphor for what is much more likely to occur within our comfort zone.
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Eye OpeningJul 17, 2009
This book has changed the way I look at the world. I had minimal knowledge of human sex trafficking prior to reading. To say it is a page turner sounds callous; however the personal vignettes tied with the history and financial analysis kept me wanting to know more. The author's passion for this cause is apparent through his heartfelt writing. Further, I don't know many people (myself included) who would stare down the devil and go into the precarious situations Mr. Kara has to collect his powerful research.
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