Forced to work in backbreaking under or unpaid jobs from agricultural workto prostitution slaves today men and women old and young are trapped inthe same spir... » 

Forced to work in backbreaking under or unpaid jobs from agricultural workto prostitution slaves today men and women old and young are trapped inthe same spiral of brutality and control they have endured for centuries withone crucial difference a collapse in the price of human beings. Globalizationgovernmental corruption and the population explosion have thrust billions ofpeople into the pool of potential slaves. This huge surplus of impoverishedpeople has pushed the human price tag to only 100 the cost of a pair ofdesigner jeans. This means that its worse to be a slave today than everbefore. Slavery Today traces the products created by this inhuman systemfrom the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives andhomes. It addresses the controversies over prostitution and the buying back ofslaves while presenting solutions and ways readers can get involved in thegrowing global antislavery movement. «