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According to Wikipedia, Kevin Brian Bales, , is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, co-author of the Global Slavery Index, and was a co-founder and previously president of Free the Slaves, the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International.

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Kevin Bales's Published Works

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Published Works

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (2000) (831)
What Predicts Human Trafficking? (2007) (164)
Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader (2005) (164)
The Social survey in historical perspective 1880-1940 (1993) (121)
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves (2007) (108)
The Global Slavery Index (2013) (103)
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude”: A critical analysis of international slavery agreements and concepts of slavery (2001) (88)
Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People (2009) (82)
Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (2004) (78)
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Updated with a New Preface (2012) (74)
Expendable People: Slavery in the Age of Globalization(1) (2000) (57)
Modern slavery in the UK: How many victims? (2015) (56)
MEASURING THE PROPENSITY TO VOLUNTEER (1996) (54)
Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8 (2018) (54)
New Slavery : A Reference Handbook (2005) (45)
The social psychology of modern slavery. (2002) (42)
Slavery in Europe: Part 1, Estimating the Dark Figure (2013) (34)
Slavery and Its Definition (2012) (29)
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World (2016) (27)
Testing a Theory of Modern Slavery (2004) (25)
How many trafficked people are there in Greater New Orleans? Lessons in measurement (2019) (23)
International Labor Standards: Quality of Information and Measures of Progress in Combating Forced Labor (2004) (21)
No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude: A critical analysis of international slavery conventions (2005) (20)
The Slave Next Door (2019) (19)
Slavery and the human right to evil (2004) (17)
Popular Reactions to Sociological Research: The Case of Charles Booth (1999) (17)
Nicole Oresme and Medieval Social Science The 14th Century Debunker of Astrology Wrote an Early Monetary Treatise (1983) (16)
Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa (2012) (16)
Understanding the Demand behind Human Trafficking (2005) (16)
Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery (2018) (15)
Lives and Labours in the Emergence of Organised Social Research, 1886–1907 (1996) (15)
Slavery is Bad for Business: Analyzing the Impact of Slavery on National Economies (2013) (14)
Document Title: Trafficking in Persons in the United States (2005) (13)
Not Yet Dead: The Establishment and Regulation of Slavery by the Islamic State (2020) (13)
Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations (2012) (13)
Cumulative Scaling of Paternalistic Behavior in Primates (1980) (11)
Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model (2014) (11)
Winning the Fight: Eradicating Slavery in the Modern Age (2009) (10)
Forced Marriage, Slavery, and Plural Legal Systems: An African Example (2016) (10)
From forests to factories: How modern slavery deepens the crisis of climate change (2021) (9)
The Dual Labor Market of the Criminal Economy (1984) (8)
Flow Control of a NACA 0015 Airfoil Using a Chordwise Array of Synthetic Jets (2003) (7)
Determinants in the perceptions of visual blight (1985) (6)
Unlocking the Statistics of Slavery (2017) (6)
Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change (2021) (6)
Remote sensing of fish-processing in the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, Bangladesh: an insight into the modern slavery-environment nexus in the coastal fringe (2020) (6)
Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021) (5)
The End of Slavery (2009) (5)
Modern Slavery Research: the UK Picture (2017) (5)
Unlocking the Statistics of Slavery (2017) (4)
The Single Parent Family Aspirations and Academic Achievement. (1979) (4)
2. THAILAND: Because She Looks Like a Child (2019) (3)
Getting What We Want: Experience and Impact in Research with Survivors of Slavery (2016) (3)
Forced Child Labor and Cocoa Production in West Africa (2008) (2)
Legal Foundations for Prohibiting the Profits and Products of Contemporary Slavery (2007) (2)
Mental health recovery for survivors of modern slavery: grounded theory study protocol (2020) (2)
Implementing sociology in secondary schools (1981) (2)
Behind closed doors: exposing modern slavery on a global scale (2010) (2)
Understanding Slavery Today (2005) (2)
Slavery as Social Institution (2015) (2)
Early innovations in social research : the Poverty Survey of Charles Booth (1994) (1)
Vincent et al. Concluding Response to Whitehead et al (2020) (1)
Reclaiming ‘antique’ data: Charles Booth's poverty survey (1986) (1)
Free Soil, Free Produce, Free Communities (2021) (1)
Trafficking in Slavery's Wake (2012) (1)
Chapter 11. The Anti- slavery Movement: Making Rights Reality (2012) (1)
WHAT INTRODUCTORY SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS LEARN (1980) (0)
War Crimes Trial by Totani is an excellent stepping stone in this movement toward a better appreciation of what happened over sixty years ago in Tokyo (2009) (0)
6. Global Problem, Global Reach (2019) (0)
Forward to Research Unchained: Multidisciplinary Future of Antislavery Studies (2018) (0)
The Challenge of Measuring Slavery (2005) (0)
2. HOUSE SLAVES (2019) (0)
APPENDIX 2: EXCERPTS FROM INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON SLAVERY (2019) (0)
Monitoring and Measuring the Ineffable (2023) (0)
Slavery and the Emergence of Non-governmental Organizations (2005) (0)
Keynote Address: First Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking (2009) (0)
APPENDIX 1: A NOTE ON RESEARCH METHODS (2019) (0)
An Empirical Assessment of Human Trafficking in Europe (2012) (0)
Preface to the 2012 Edition (2019) (0)
8. Ending Poverty to End Slavery to End Poverty to End Slavery (2019) (0)
Slaves to destruction (2016) (0)
Coda: Three Steps to Stopping Slavery (2019) (0)
What is the link between natural disaster and human trafficking and slavery? (2021) (0)
Chapter 4. Slavery and the Emergence of Non-governmental Organizations (2019) (0)
7. Ending the (Product) Chain (2019) (0)
Globalization and Redemption (2005) (0)
Chapter 1. Understanding Slavery Today (2019) (0)
1. THE NEW SLAVERY (2019) (0)
3. MAURITANIA: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten (2019) (0)
Chapter 7. Human Trafficking (2019) (0)
Opening Public Address: First Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking (2009) (0)
CODA. What YOU Can Do to End Slavery (2019) (0)
5. Governments: Carrying the Biggest Stick (2019) (0)
Slavery in the Twentieth Century - The Evolution of a Global Problem (review) (2005) (0)
1. The Challenge: Understanding the World of New Slavery (2019) (0)
Appendix 2. Rankings of Countries on Ordinal Scales for Slavery and Trafficking (2019) (0)
2. Building the Plan (2019) (0)
Fuel for growth and development (2015) (0)
Afterword: “All of It Is Now” (2019) (0)
Appendix 1. Slavery Research Questions Used in Case Studies (2019) (0)
Preface to the Revised Edition (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Slavery and the Human Right to Evil (2019) (0)
3. Rescuing Slaves Today (2019) (0)
Illustrations and Tables (2019) (0)
Contemporary Coercive Labor Practices: Slavery Today (2017) (0)
Contrast and complementarity in three theories of criminal behavior (1982) (0)
Chapter 6. Globalization and Redemption (2019) (0)
4. Home-Grown Freedom (2019) (0)
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016 (2022) (0)
4. BRAZIL: Life on the Edge (2019) (0)
7. WHAT CAN BE DONE? (2019) (0)
The Construction of Biblical Certainty: Textual Optimism and the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament (2013) (0)
Documenting Disposable People : Comtemporary Global Slavery (2008) (0)
APPENDIX. Measuring the Effectiveness of Antislavery Work (2019) (0)
Anti-Slavery and the Redefining of Justice (2011) (0)
Throwaway people (2000) (0)
Conclusion: The Beginning of the End of Slavery (2019) (0)
Chapter 8. Understanding the Demand behind Human Trafficking (2019) (0)

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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

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