Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales ( born 1952 ) is an American sociologist and is considered the world's leading expert slavery.

Kevin Bales is the co-founder and former president of the organization Free the Slaves ( " Free the Slaves "), which campaigns against today's slavery and the U.S. sister organization of Anti-Slavery International. Bales is Professor of Sociology at the University of Roehampton in London, a member of the committee of Anti-Slavery International and advises the United Nations in the fight against human trafficking.

In his 1999 published and has since been translated into several other languages ​​book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy ( German-language title: The new slavery ) proves Kevin Bales that slavery - although abolished worldwide - now affects millions of people, which he based on detailed studies in Thailand, Mauritania, Brazil, Pakistan and India portrays. Bales estimates the number of slaves on approximately 27 million, with the most common form of slavery is debt bondage and slavery it as " the complete domination of one person by another for the purpose of economic exploitation; the key feature is defined violence and detention of the person against their will. "

For his work against slavery Kevin Bales received various awards and honors.

Writings (selection )

  • The New Slavery ( "Disposable People. New Slavery in the Global Economy "). Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88897-264-7 (translated by Inge Leipold ).
  • Understanding Global Slavery. A Reader. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-24507-5.
  • Modern slavery ( " Slavery Today" ). Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-8369-2590-7 (along with Becky Cornell ).
  • Ending slavery. How we free today 's slaves. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-25796-2.
  • The slave next door. Human trafficking and slavery in America today. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25515-9.
  • The social survey in historical perspective. From 1880 to 1940. CUP, Cambridge, 1991, ISBN 0-521-36334-9 (along with Martin Bulmer and Kathryn K. Sklar ).
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