Contemporary Slavery
In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now.
Vocabulary & concepts to discuss in conjunciton with video
Contemporary
Hubris
Lit (literature) review
Speculation
Anecdotal
Research project
Slave: Forced to work without pay, under threat of violence & unable to walk away.
Slave holder
Economic crime
Slave based business
Agricultural worker
Trans Atlantic slave trade
Causal factor
Supporting factor
Numerous
Vulnerability
Kleptocratic
Destitute
Rule of law
Corruption
Impunity
Demeaning
"The hammer comes down"
Collapse in the price of human beings
Disposable people
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
James Kofi Anan
Human trafficers
Slavery has been pushed to the edges of global society
Slavery is standing on the precipice of its own extinction
What does it cost to get people out of slavery?
Abet
Liberation is not an event, it is a process
Hereditary slavery
Stable life of citizenship and education
Sustainable freedom
10.8 billion dollars
Freedom dividend
3 squares
Whole economies spiral up
Botched emancipation of 1865
CBC News In Depth: Modern Slavery.
CBC reporter David Gutnick travelled to Ghana, Togo and Mauritania in December 2007 to report on modern-day slavery and child traficking in Africa.
