Life interrupted : trafficking into forced labor in the United States

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Denise, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Abuse of--United States.

Human rights--United States.

Human trafficking--United States.

Foreign workers.

Human trafficking.

Human rights.

Local Subjects:

Foreign workers--Abuse of--United States.

Human rights--United States.

Human trafficking--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts to global economic inequities and under-regulated and unprotected workplaces that routinely exploit migrant laborers in the United States. Brennan contends that today's

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Starting Over; Part I. The Assault on Workers; Chapter 1. Dangerous Labor: Migrant Workers and Sex Workers; Chapter 2. Chains of Fear: The Subjectivity of Coercion; Part II. Life after Forced Labor; Chapter 3. Imagining the Possible: Creating Home; Chapter 4. Living the Possible: Settling into Home; Chapter 5. Laboring after Forced Labor; Closing Comments; Appendix: Ideas and Resources for Action; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9781478093244

1478093242

9780822376910

0822376911

OCLC:

1171946519