slave labor

Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.

In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.

"BLOOD AND EARTH is a gripping account of the deadly link between slavery and environmental destruction. Kevin Bales is a social scientist, human rights activist, and journalist -- and he's also one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery. In his work he began to notice the connection between environmental decline and slavery: the two almost always went hand-in-hand, whether in the hellish gold mines of Ghana or the miraculously beautiful mangrove forests of Bangladesh. But why? He set off to find the answer on a fascinating and moving journey that took him into the lives of modern day slaves and along a supply chain that leads directly to the cell phones in our pockets. He found solutions that redeemed both the lives of the slaves in the world's most threatened places and the environments they live in. This is a clear-eyed, inspiring, and profoundly hopeful book that brings us dramatic stories from the world's environmental and human rights hotspots and offers solutions to our most pressing crises"--.

Reveals the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, legal loopholes, and immigration fraud that gives American employers forced labor and American consumers low prices on goods. Based on dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts, the author goes behind the scenes of three illegal workplaces where employees are financially or physically enslaved.

Describes the life and work of Jhalak Man Tamang, a Nepalese teenage boy who spent a part of his childhood as a worker in a carpet factory and went on to be an advocate for child labor laws; and explores the problem of slave labor around the world.

Kris Bjornson, one of a group of slaves dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters, learns to survive with the help of renegade exile Zainal, but when the time comes to join in a revolution against the Catteni, she is torn between her love for Zainal and her desire to return to Earth.

Investigates the resurgence of slavery in countries around the world, discussing the nature of the new slavery, and exposing the economic conditions that make slaveholding possible.

Investigates the resurgence of slavery in countries around the world, discussing the nature of the new slavery, and exposing the economic conditions that make slaveholding possible.

Examines slavery in the modern world, both in rich countries and in developing nations. Describes the products of slavery from the factory, jungle, and farm. Discusses strategies for ending slavery.