Most teenagers are familiar with the concept of slavery from studying history. However, many are unaware that slavery still flourishes around the world today, even within the borders of the United States. In fact, the modern slave trade is a lucrative criminal enterprise—the third most profitable in the world after drug trafficking and the illegal sale of arms and munitions. It affects millions of people who are forced to work by threat of mental and physical abuse, in inhuman conditions, for little or no pay. This book illuminates this modern-day tragedy for teen readers with clear explanations and examples drawn from around the world. Current efforts to combat the problem and to provide reparations are discussed, and the author includes practical suggestions to help teens act as modern-day abolitionists.

Millions of people around the world are forced to work without pay and under threat of violence. These individuals can be found working in brothels, factories, mines, farm fields, restaurants, construction sites and private homes: many have been tricked by human traffickers and lured by false promises of good jobs or education, some are forced to work at gunpoint, while others are trapped by phony debts from unscrupulous moneylenders. The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and global look at the diverse issues surrounding human trafficking and slavery in the post-1945 environment. Covering everything from history, literature and politics to economics, international law and geography, this Handbook is essential reading for academics and researchers, as well as for policy-makers and non-governmental organisations

Bringing together conceptual, practice, and advocacy knowledge, Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: Freedom′s Journey explores the complexities of human trafficking and modern-day slavery through a global perspective. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary text includes a discussion of the root causes and structural issues that continue to plague society, as well as real-life case studies and vignettes, the words of human trafficking survivors, and insights from first responders and anti-trafficking advocates. Each chapter includes a "call to action" to inspire readers to implement a range of strategies designed to disrupt, eradicate, or mitigate human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

Today, millions of people are being held in slavery around the world. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, and domestic servants. With exposés by seven former slaves--as well as one slaveholder--from Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, this groundbreaking collection of harrowing first-hand accounts reveals how slavery continues to thrive in the twenty-first century. From the memoirs of Micheline, a Haitian girl coerced into domestic work in Connecticut, to the confessions of Abdel Nasser, a Mauritanian master turned abolitionist, these stories heighten awareness of a global human rights crisis that can no longer be ignored.

Sexual trafficking is a pressing issue—and one that doesn’t receive enough attention or discussion. In this groundbreaking title, readers will come face-to-face with the realities of sexual trafficking and modern-day slavery. Myths such as the belief that slavery is a practice of the past are debunked with statistics and facts regarding the global slave trade and sexual trafficking in North America. Most important, readers will learn the warning signs of trafficking, the ways that governments are combatting the problem, and how they—as consumers—can fight back and confront sexual trafficking and slave labor.

This is a historical, nonfiction, true story and addresses necessary changes that must be implemented, maintained, and enforced in worldwide healthcare provider professional training programs and hospitals. The book exposes abuses and enslavement policies and attitudes in health care training programs and hospital administrations worldwide and offers simple and genius remedies to eradicate these deleterious policies and slave owner attitudes of hospital administrators. The book lays out a realistic pathway, achievable goals, and a potential glorious and auspicious destiny of worldwide improvement in the care of hospitalized patients, physicians morale, respect, and dignity, maintenance and perseverance of eternal zenith patient care and ethical and moral hospital administrations and individual hospital administrators behavior and policies in this generation and all future generations. The book elucidates essential key strategies to restore power, influence, dignity, and respect (all have been stripped from "physician slaves" by malevolent "administrator slave owners"), back to their rightful owners (and rightfully so, based on their education and training in the direct care of patients), who are those individual and independent contractor physician specialists (who admirably sacrifice their healthy sleep and rest time to compassionately care for the emergent needs of hospitalized patients at all inconvenient hours of the day and night in addition to their full-time weekly, busy work schedule, caring for their outpatient office practice patients). Dignity, respect and balance of power must be restored to independent physicians and other healthcare provider personnel throughout the world to emancipate these current "slaves" from their current "slave owners" and the current "slave owner system." Emancipated "slaves" must then continue to be guided by ethical and moral singularity of purpose and intent, and be organized, supported, and defended by "pro-independent healthcare providers" powerful unions. Independent and emancipated healthcare providers will then be empowered and powerfully defended and willing and capable to continue the fight and battle for their new freedom, respect and dignity, each generation, against the ever-present threat of re-enslavement of independent healthcare providers by hospital administrators who may (and often) only have unethical, selfish fiscal, or "avoid litigation" goals instead of more highly admirable and desired intentions and goals of ethical and moral behavior, respecting physician independence, judgement and balance of power (versus hospital administrator's maleficent goals and aspirations), ultimately achieving the desired outcome and goal of realizing zenith patient care worldwide, all stemming from the long overdue emancipation of current "Physician Slaves" from their current hospital "Adminis-Traitors" or "Slave Owners" that has persisted for centuries, but now can and must be abolished, via enlightenment that inspires individuals to unite and act now on the recommendations in this book, adhering to the gestalt and paradigm shift brilliantly (proscribed by current and past "slave owners") prescribed by this book's dynamic author.

This edited volume, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the aforementioned research area. Each chapter is complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on modern slavery and human trafficking, and opening new possible research paths for further novel developments.

This edited volume examines contemporary global discourses on trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery from a variety of perspectives.

Leading social scientists and historians debate key controversies in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking studies.