| Contents |
Introduction: Down the rabbit hole -- Trafficking into sale. Young Americans on traveling sales crews ; Sex and labor in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act -- Trafficking in agriculture. In the devil's garden ; Indenture, slavery, and contract labor in agriculture ; From slavery to prison and peonage -- Trafficking into domestic work. Trafficking into domestic and care work today ; The history of exploitation in domestic work -- Trafficking into industry and infrastructure. Contemporary trafficking cases in industry and infrastructure ; Slavery and prison labor in industry and infrastructure -- Trafficking for sex. 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 -- Conclusion. What kind of help is truly helpful? |
| Abstract |
"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 |
| Abstract |
Ditmore tells the story of compulsory labor in the American economy, from the earliest indentured servants and enslaved people up to today. She shows that modern trafficking may present in the form of a teenage boy showing up on your doorstep to sell magazine subscriptions. She outlines the major economic sectors in which employees play an essential role in our economy but do not benefit from it. The result is an urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy-- from the stories of its survivors. -- adapted from jacket |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ditmore, Melissa Hope. Unbroken chains. Boston : Beacon Press, [2023] 9780807006795 |
| LCCN | 2022053695 |
| ISBN | 9780807006771 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0807006777 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
