Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex TraffickingIllegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange. Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc, is an exceptional book, both for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the tenacious bravery with which Cacho pursues the truth. |
Contents
Mafia of Geishas | |
Europes Hideout | |
The War Against Women | |
Arms Drugs and Women | |
Money Laundering | |
The Pimp Profession | |
The Mafia and Globalization | |
Shifting Numbers Moral Panic and the Debate | |
Conclusions | |
Glossary | |
Appendix | |
Acknowledgements | |
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Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking Lydia Cacho No preview available - 2013 |
Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking Lydia Cacho No preview available - 2012 |
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