The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today Book

Definitely a frustrating book. While I think it is an important book for raising awareness it paints a very narrow picture of human trafficking and the form it takes in the US. I would caution folks to question the validity of some of the authors' claims. (Ask yourself, where did they get those numbers). As someone who works in the area of trafficking and forced labor internationally, I can assure that while the cases the authors present are undoubtedly not fictitious, they are hardly representative. Furthermore, they use terminology such as slavery, forced labor, bonded-labor, and trafficking interchangeably. This is highly problematic and I would encourage the reader to explore their use of the term slave. Again, I do think this is an important read as it demonstrates that human trafficking, forced labor, bonded-labor, child labor, etc are not just issues in far away lands. They happen right here in the US.