HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of…
Loading...

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking (original 2010; edition 2014)

by Lydia Cacho

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
901298,307 (4.21)1
A powerful, brave and uncompromising investigation into the global underground of sex trafficking, from one of the world's most tireless and influential campaigners against sexual exploitation.
Member:ssimon2000
Title:Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
Authors:Lydia Cacho
Info:Soft Skull Press (2014), Paperback, 256 pages
Collections:
Rating:
Tags:None

Work Information

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho (2010)

None
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 1 mention

Irrefutable Work of a Veteran Journalist

Slavery Inc. is a brief introduction to Cacho's years of tireless work as an investigative journalist and political commentator. The book is very ambitious in several of its thesis, but some of the details to support her conclusions are not explained in sufficient detail.

I believe every word that Cacho has written. She describes a terrifying and realistic world in which tens of thousands of women are turned into commodities. Cacho correctly says that these women are slaves. The author's on-the-ground research should have been the backbone of this book.

One of the conclusions that she spells out very well is that such women are "slaves" because they are taken advantage of first by political and economic circumstances, and later by traffickers. The original title of the book, "Slaves to Power," speaks to that point. A conclusion that rings true to me is the connection between neo-liberalism and human trafficking, but it is not fully explained in the book, despite being repeated several times. To undercut her own point, Cacho spends an equal amount of time discussing case-studies about women from developed versus underdeveloped countries.

The first half of the book includes stories from individual countries mixed in with Cacho's sociological beliefs. These chapters have some cohesion, unlike the second half, which breaks down into very amorphous chapters (with the exception of an excellent chapter on money laundering). The flow of the book seems to break down quite frequently because of long excerpts cut from studies and NGO reports that don't often fit with the prose. Perhaps it is my fault for not understanding all of the sociological jargon used in the book.

Cacho does an excellent job discussing whether to fight the "supply" or the "demand," much like the drug debates of the '80s and '90s. Cacho's conclusion is that both need to be tackled, but more importantly, gender roles need to be retaught to younger generations of both sexes.

Nevertheless, the book is powerful. It presents a world that, unfortunately, rings all too true and needs to be corrected. ( )
  mvblair | Aug 9, 2020 |
no reviews | add a review

» Add other authors (6 possible)

Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Lydia Cachoprimary authorall editionscalculated
Boburg, ElizabethTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Saviano, RobertoForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Violence is not good because it hurts and it makes me cry.
—Yeana, sex-trafficking victim survivor, ten years old
Dedication
To my brothers Oscar, José and Alfredo, who have shown that their masculinity can be loving, pro-equality and non violent.
First words
Quotations
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (1)

A powerful, brave and uncompromising investigation into the global underground of sex trafficking, from one of the world's most tireless and influential campaigners against sexual exploitation.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (4.21)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3 1
3.5 1
4 2
4.5
5 3

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 203,187,291 books! | Top bar: Always visible