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Unbroken chains : the hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy / Melissa Hope Ditmore

Author
Ditmore, Melissa Hope
Published
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]
Physical Description
xiv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents
Young Americans on traveling sales crews -- Sex and labor in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act -- In the devil's garden -- Indenture, slavery, and contract labor in agriculture -- From slavery to prison and peonage -- Trafficking into domestic and care work today -- The history of exploitation in domestic work -- Contemporary trafficking cases in industry and infrastructure -- Slavery and prison labor in industry and infrastructure -- Flor's story -- Prostitution of enslaved and indentured women -- Morality in immigration restrictions -- The Mann Act and "white slavery" -- Twenty-first-century efforts to combat human trafficking -- What kind of help is truly helpful?
Summary
"An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy-from the stories of its survivors"--
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ISBN
9780807006771 hardcover
0807006777 hardcover
9780807006795 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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