| Title |
Unbroken chains : the hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy / Melissa Hope Ditmore. |
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| Publication Info. |
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023] |
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| Description |
xiv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Human trafficking -- United States.
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Human trafficking victims -- United States.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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| ISBN |
9780807006771 (hardcover) : $29.95 |
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0807006777 (hardcover) |
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| ISBN |
9780807006771 (hardcover) : $29.95 |
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0807006777 (hardcover) |
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