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Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable.Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals.Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation.Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy.All of the author's royalties from this book go to fund anti-slavery projects around the world.

Slavery. --- Slave labor. --- Poor --- Prostitution. --- Employment. --- case studies. --- cheap slaves. --- dispossession. --- economic globalization. --- human trafficking. --- illegal. --- india. --- labor market. --- legalized slavery. --- mauritania brazil. --- modern slavery. --- modernized agriculture. --- new slavery. --- overpopulation. --- pakistan. --- political awareness. --- population. --- sex trafficking. --- short term investment. --- slaveowners. --- social activism. --- thailand. --- unexpected slaves. --- white slavery.

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In 'Runaway Genres', Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers like Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all are woven into Goyal's argument for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre, exploring the full complexity of this new ethical globalism. From the humanitarian spectacles of Kony 2012 and #BringBackOurGirls through gothic literature, 'Runaway Genres' unravels, for instance, how and why the African child soldier has now appeared as the afterlife of the Atlantic slave.0Goyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today-from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide-we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of globalism, the book presents alternative conceptions of human rights, showing that the revival and proliferation of slave narratives offers not just an occasion to revisit the Atlantic past, but also for re-narrating the global present. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human, 'Runaway Genres' creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.

African American. --- African. --- Afropolitan. --- Ahmadou Kourouma. --- Atlantic. --- Caryl Phillips. --- Chimamanda Adichie. --- Chris Abani. --- Colson Whitehead. --- Dave Eggers. --- Dinaw Mengestu. --- Francis Bok. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Global South. --- Ishmael Beah. --- Mat Johnson. --- NoViolet Bulawayo. --- Othello. --- Paul Beatty. --- Susan Minot. --- Teju Cole. --- Toni Morrison. --- Underground Railroad. --- abolition. --- absurd. --- affect. --- analogy. --- black Atlantic. --- blackness. --- child soldier. --- diaspora. --- fiction and slavery. --- gothic. --- human rights. --- human trafficking. --- humanitarianism. --- immigrant. --- intertextuality. --- memoir. --- modern slavery. --- neo-slave narrative. --- neoliberal. --- post-blackness. --- postcolonial. --- refugees. --- satire. --- sentimentalism. --- slave narrative. --- trauma. --- ventriloquism. --- war.

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Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people-in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended. Written to raise awareness and deepen understanding, and touching again on individual lives around the world, this book tackles head-on one of the most urgent and difficult problems facing us today. Each of the chapters in Understanding Global Slavery explores a different facet of global slavery. Bales investigates slavery's historical roots to illuminate today's puzzles. He explores our basic ideas about what slavery is and how the phenomenon fits into our moral, political, and economic worlds. He seeks to explain how human trafficking brings people into our cities and how the demand for trafficked workers, servants, and prostitutes shapes modern slavery. And he asks how we can study and measure this mostly hidden crime. Throughout, Bales emphasizes that to end global slavery, we must first understand it. This book is a step in that direction.

Forced labor. --- Prostitution. --- Slave labor. --- Slave trade. --- Slavery. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Forced labor --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Employees --- Sociology of work --- Human rights --- Slavery --- Slave labor --- Slave trade --- Sex work --- Enslaved persons --- abolition. --- academic. --- antislavery. --- crime. --- criminal justice. --- current affairs. --- economics. --- economy. --- ethics. --- expose. --- global economy. --- global issues. --- global slavery. --- globalization. --- human rights. --- human trafficking. --- international. --- modern slavery. --- morals. --- pakistan. --- phenomenon. --- politics. --- race issues. --- race. --- racism. --- redemption. --- scholarly. --- servitude. --- slavery. --- thailand. --- true story. --- us history.

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Construction is one of the main sectors that generates greenhouse gases. This industry consumes large amounts of raw materials, such as stone, timber, water, etc. Additionally, infrastructure should provide service over many years without safety problems. Therefore, their correct design, construction, maintenance, and dismantling are essential to reducing economic, environmental, and societal consequences. That is why promoting sustainable construction has recently become extremely important. To help address and resolve these types of questions, this book explores new ways of reducing the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector, as well promotes social progress and economic growth. The chapters collect the papers included in the “Sustainable Construction” Special Issue of the Sustainability journal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues related to the use of sustainable materials in construction, the optimization of designs based con sustainable indicators, the life-cycle assessment, the decision-making processes that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects, and the promotion of durable materials that reduce future maintenance.

rheological properties --- self-sensing --- piezo-resistivity --- graphene nanoplatelets --- structural health monitoring --- urban regeneration --- sustainable construction --- environmental effects --- surface urban heat island --- albedo --- sustainable concrete --- fly ash --- ultra fine fly ash --- sulphuric acid --- nitric acid --- exterior wall painting --- automation robot --- life cycle cost --- performance evaluation --- sustainable business strategies --- competitive advantage --- corporate sustainability --- bio-inspiration --- sustainability assessment --- function --- resource --- burden --- Design for sustainability --- life cycle thinking --- bio-flexi --- apartment housing --- construction process --- CO2 emissions --- high-speed railway (HSR) --- sustainable development --- unascertained measure --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- Harbin-Dalian Passenger Dedicated Line (PDL) --- rebar corrosion --- cracked RC material --- aggressive environment --- durability --- electrochemical test methods --- SDGs --- construction --- supply networks --- sustainability --- FSC --- modern slavery --- bridges --- life-cycle assessment --- optimization --- ReCiPe --- Life Cycle Assessment --- Social Life Cycle Analysis --- reinforced concrete --- chloride corrosion --- preventive measures

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Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small groups on the run because they have defied authority, committed crimes, seemed dangerous simply for existing, or been categorized as subhuman or dispensable. Chamayou begins in ancient Greece, where young Spartans hunted and killed Helots (Sparta's serfs) as an initiation rite, and where Aristotle and other philosophers helped to justify raids to capture and enslave foreigners by creating the concept of natural slaves. He discusses the hunt for heretics in the Middle Ages; New World natives in the early modern period; vagrants, Jews, criminals, and runaway slaves in other eras; and illegal immigrants today. Exploring evolving ideas about the human and the subhuman, what we owe to enemies and people on the margins of society, and the supposed legitimacy of domination, Chamayou shows that the hunting of humans should not be treated ahistorically, and that manhunting has varied as widely in its justifications and aims as in its practices. He investigates the psychology of manhunting, noting that many people, from bounty hunters to Balzac, have written about the thrill of hunting when the prey is equally intelligent and cunning. An unconventional history on an unconventional subject, Manhunts is an in-depth consideration of the dynamics of an age-old form of violence.

Lynching. --- Minorities --- Hunting --- Violence --- Chase, The --- Field sports --- Gunning --- Harvesting (Hunting) --- Hunting for sport --- Hunting, Primitive --- Recreational hunting --- Sport hunting --- Wildlife-related recreation --- Safaris --- Trapping --- Crimes against minorities --- Minority victims of crime --- Homicide --- Crimes against. --- Philosophy. --- African slavery. --- Africans. --- American Indians. --- Christian pastoralism. --- Greeks. --- Indian hunting. --- Jews. --- New World. --- Nimrod. --- Ren Girard. --- Western capitalism. --- acquisition hunts. --- acquisition. --- ancient Greece. --- anti-Semitism. --- authority. --- begging. --- blacks. --- capture. --- collective mobilization. --- conquest. --- cynegetic power. --- cynegetic powers. --- domination. --- enslavement. --- exclusion. --- extermination hunts. --- foreign workers. --- foreigners. --- heretics. --- hunted. --- hunter. --- hunting. --- illegal aliens. --- immigrant workers. --- internment. --- interpredation. --- legal exclusion. --- legal protection. --- lynching. --- manhunting. --- manhunts. --- marginal society. --- master. --- modern slavery. --- pack hunting. --- pastoral hunting. --- pastoral hunts. --- pastoralists. --- persecution. --- police. --- policing. --- political status. --- political thought. --- poor. --- poverty. --- power. --- predator. --- predatory power. --- prey. --- protectionism. --- protective power. --- pursuit. --- racist violence. --- right-wing movements. --- sexist violence. --- slave labor. --- slave. --- slavery. --- state power. --- stateless people. --- subhuman. --- tracking. --- violence. --- xenophobia. --- xenophobic violence. --- Noncitizens. --- Aliens --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Illegal aliens --- Illegal immigrants --- Non-citizens --- Noncitizens --- Resident aliens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Undocumented aliens --- Undocumented immigrants --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Persons --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Anti-lynching movements