Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales at Chatham House (2013)

Kevin Bales (* 1952 ) is an American sociologist and is considered the world's leading slavery expert.

Kevin Bales is co-founder and former president of the organization Free the Slaves , which campaigns against slavery in our time and is the American partner organization of Anti-Slavery International . Bales is Professor of Sociology at the University of Roehampton in London , a member of the Anti-Slavery International Committee and advises the United Nations on combating human trafficking .

In his 1999 published and translated since then in several other languages book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (German-language title: The New Slavery ) has Kevin Bales after that slavery - although abolished worldwide - now affects millions of people, which he based on detailed Describes studies in Thailand , Mauritania , Brazil , Pakistan and India . Bales estimates the number of slaves at about 27 million, the most common form of slavery being debt bondage and slavery being “the complete domination of one person by another for economic exploitation; the decisive characteristic is violence and the holding of the person against their will ”.

Kevin Bales has received various prizes and awards for his work against slavery.

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as an author

• The new slavery ("Disposable People. New Slavery in the Global Economy"). Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88897-264-7 (translated by Inge Leipold).
• Understanding Global Slavery. A reader . University of California Press, Berkeley 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-24507-5 .
• Modern slavery ("Slavery today"). Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-8369-2590-7 (together with Becky Cornell).
• Ending slavery. How we free today's slaves . University of California Press, Berkeley 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-25796-2 .
• The slave next door. Human trafficking and slavery in America today . University of California Press, Berkeley 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25515-9 .

as editor

• The social survey in historical perspective. 1880-1940 . CUP, Cambridge 1991, ISBN 0-521-36334-9 (together with Martin Bulmer and Kathryn K. Sklar).

Web links

• Literature by and about Kevin Bales in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at Roehampton University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ], Leadership of Free the Slaves