ISBN:
9780231164238
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9780231535755 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
345 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780231535755
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
306.3620905
Keywords:
Arbeitnehmer
;
Ausbeutung
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Schuldknechtschaft
;
Menschenhandel
;
Zwangsprostituierte
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths, and O...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
