Contemporary slavery - by Leonardo Sakamoto

Every year, thousands of people are trafficked and subjected to inhumane conditions of service and prevented from breaking their relationship with their employer. Often, they are prevented from leaving work until they complete the task for which they were recruited, under threats that range from psychological torture to beatings and murder. People who have their dignity stripped away by a system of slave labor. This book, organized by Leonardo Sakamoto, brings together great national and foreign experts who show what contemporary slave labor is, its recent history, how it is inserted in Brazil and the world, what has been done to eradicate it, and why that it has been so difficult to fight it. A necessary work, a tool for one of the most important battles of our time. After all, as long as any human being is a victim of slave labor, humanity will not, in fact, be free.