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Kevin Bales CMG is Professor of Contemporary Slavery and Research Director of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, UK. He was a Co-Founder of Free the Slaves in Washington, D.C. and co-Author of the Global Slavery Index. 

Going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed how modern slavery penetrates the global economy in his Pulitzer-nominated book, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. The film based on this book, Slavery: A Global Investigation (TrueVision), which he co-wrote for HBO and Channel 4, won a Peabody Award and two Emmys.

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Books

One of the most prolific authors on the topic of modern slavery, read about and order Bales' books, including Disposable People.

Articles

Look here for peer-reviewed articles from the emerging science of slavery, including the latest work on the prevalence of global slavery.

Videos

Nearly a million people have watched Bales' TED talk - see it here as well as CNN, PBS, and other interviews including the Big Think.

Praise for Blood and Earth

This is a remarkable book, demonstrating once more the deep links between the ongoing degradation of the planet and the ongoing degradation of its most vulnerable people. It's a bracing reminder that a mentality that allows throwaway people also allows a throwaway earth. 
—Bill McKibben, author Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
Bales travels from the tin mines of the Congo to the interior of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil to further understand why slave-driven trade has a direct link to global warming. This book documents dramatic accounts of human atrocity as well as stories of hope and empowerment. The author concludes his powerful journey with a reminder that this knowledge gives everyone the ability to end modern slavery and ecocide starting at the consumer level.
—Library Journal
For his latest book, Bales traveled around the globe for seven years documenting the wretched lives of the enslaved and revealing how their forced work destroys the natural world. Weaving together interviews, history, and statistics, the author shines a light on how the poverty, chaos, wars, and government corruption create the perfect storm where slavery flourishes and environmental destruction follows.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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