Reviews for Drugs, runaways, and teen prostitution

The average rating for Drugs, runaways, and teen prostitution based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-05 00:00:00 Jared Ackerman In his book, Bales recounts how the escaped slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was invited to give a keynote speech for a large Fourth of July celebration in New York in 1852. Instead of delivering a rousing speech about the greatness of living in freedom, Douglass basically asked how we can be proud of our freedom if there were still slaves in existence? And while most of us think of the word “slavery” in terms of something that happened a long time ago, it actually still exists today — it exists in Thailand where the sex industry keeps thousands of young women enslaved as prostitutes; it exists in Pakistan, where bonded laborers work in furnace-like heat, making bricks; it exists in charcoal-making camps in Brazil, where the poor are lured into debt bondage, where measly rations are often their only payment for their work. And all of it continues to exist, in part, because a lot of us don’t question it. It sort of hit home for me when Bales wrote, “…consumers do look for bargains, and they don’t usually stop to ask why a product is so cheap. We have to face facts: by always looking for the best deal, we may be choosing slave-made goods without knowing what we are buying.” p. 23-24

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-13 00:00:00 Andrew Bryans I read this book for my history class. I really enjoyed the way this book was written. It was written more as a story than an information heavy textbook. This book talked about how slavery still exists in our world today, just in a different form that it did in the past. We explored slavery in Brazil, India, Mauritania, Pakistan, and Thailand. Rating: 4/5