MDDM slavery

[Otto]

"Most people think of slavery as a phenomenon of the past, as something we
have put behind us. In "Disposable People" Bales surveys the disturbing
extent of slavery in the modern world, where there may be more slaves than
at any previous time in history - around 25 million by his estimate."

Disposable People
New Slavery in the Global Economy
Kevin Bales
University of California Press 2000
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Disposable_People.html

Contents
1. The New Slavery
2. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child
3. Mauritania: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
4. Brazil: Life on the Edge
5. Pakistan: When Is a Slave Not a Slave?
6. India: The Ploughman's Lunch
7. What Can Be Done?
Coda: Five Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8428.html

MODERNE ZWANGSARBEIT
Die Sklaverei blüht noch immer
Sabine Hoffmann
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,182450,00.html
http://www.ndrtv.de/kulturreport/sklaverei.html

The numbers vary from 25 to 27 million people worldwide, many of them
children. The SPIEGEL-article says that the price for a human slave has
dropped from 90.000 ? in the 19th century to 19 ? (!!!) today.

Otto