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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Kevin Bales is an expert on modern slavery and President of Free the Slaves, and lives in Washington DC. Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London, Visiting Professor at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative. Bales's book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy published in 1999, has now been published in ten other languages. Archbishop Desmond Tutu called it a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing expose of modern slavery . A revised edition was published in 2005. This book was based on the first-hand in-depth study of five slave-based businesses in five different countries: Thailand; Mauritania; Brazil; India; and Pakistan. His book was the basis for, and he worked on, the film Slavery: A Global Investigation made by TrueVision in 2000. That film won the Peabody Award for 2000 and two Emmy Awards in 2002.

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