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Author Ditmore, Melissa Hope, author.

Title Unbroken chains : the hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy / Melissa Hope Ditmore.

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 DITMORE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.362 DITMORE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.362 DITMORE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.362 DITMORE    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  306.362 DIT    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Human trafficking victims -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Human trafficking. (OCoLC)fst01739818
Human trafficking victims. (OCoLC)fst01741863
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Online version: Ditmore, Melissa Hope. Unbroken chains Boston : Beacon Press, [2023] 9780807006795 (DLC) 2022053696
ISBN 9780807006771 hardcover
0807006777 hardcover
9780807006795 electronic book
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