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Millions of people worldwide live in slavery. Most are South Asian "bonded laborers" caught in a web of debt. They spend years in backbreaking slave labor to pay back emergency loans they took out at usurious rates from extortionist lenders who cheat them. Few ever get free from or out of debt because of low wages and escalating obligations. Siddharth Kara reports on the curse of bonded labor in South Asia. He details what the region's nations must do to eliminate bonded labor and outlines how private parties can help. With a note that its dense format is a bit daunting, getAbstract recommends Kara's shocking report to international investors, supply-side experts, students, and anyone who objects to and wants to help stop this exploitation of human beings.

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Columbia UP