K Bales
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2281 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K Bales |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | Bales |
| ASSINATURA | BALES K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1516-7148 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 196 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Friends of God and Slaves of Men
Motherhood, Human Trafficking, and Asylum Seeking
This article aims to illuminate the little-studied phenomenon of asylum-seeking child-bearing women in the UK, survivors of violence and human trafficking. This is a significant issue in terms of the proportion of women affected and the paucity of care and support currently available to them as mother survivors. This study looked to examine the frontline support services of one project to survivor mothers through two collaborating organisations, …
Introducing the Euro-Invasion Conflict Database 1513–1901
We introduce a comprehensive new dataset of conflicts, in chronological order, between the Indigenous Peoples of North America and Europeans seeking to colonize what is now the Continental United States. These data, covering 1,375 conflicts, were originally compiled as a book in 2007 by Michael L. Nunnally, a self-taught historian with a talent for careful data collection and analysis. A research team within the Rights Lab (University of Nottingh…
Linked auditory and motor patterns in the improvisation vocabulary of an artist-level jazz pianist
Monitoring and Measuring the Ineffable
We present an analysis of the work of Religious Sisters in Assam, India. They are involved in anti-slavery/anti-human trafficking work, as well as driving fundamentally feminist, economic equality, and human rights agendas within the wider communities in which they live. Their work resembles that of Non-Governmental Organisations, but unlike most ngo s, the Sisters tend not to: produce annual reports, carry out evaluation exercises, prepare grant…
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict
We introduce a new dataset, Contemporary Slavery in Armed Conflict (CSAC), coding instances and types of enslavement in armed conflict from 1989 to 2016, building on Uppsala Conflict Data Program data. CSAC currently covers 171 armed conflicts from 1989 to 2016, with the unit of analysis being the conflict-year. We identify different types of enslavement within these conflicts and find that 87% contained incidences of child soldiers, 34% included…
Vincent et al. Concluding Response to Whitehead et al
"Vincent et al. Concluding Response to Whitehead et al." Journal of Human Trafficking, 8(4), pp. 474–475
Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs
This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the extent of the prevalence of modern slavery and exploitative labour. This analysis represents the first of its kind in estimating the spatiotemporal patterns in the Bull’s Trench Kilns across the Brick Belt…
A erradicação do trabalho escravo até 2030 e os desafios da vigilância em saúde do trabalhador
A erradicação das formas contemporâneas de escravidão é uma relevante questão científica, social e institucional. De fato, esforços globais têm sido feitos para compreender, mapear e eliminar a escravidão contemporânea, como um dos objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável das Nações Unidas até 2030. Entretanto, pouca atenção tem sido dada para o lugar da vigilância em saúde do trabalhador (VISAT) nas estratégias e lutas pela erradicação dessas re…
Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change
From forests to factories
Globally those in slavery, though small in absolute numbers (est. 40.2 million), contribute disproportionately to environmental destruction and carbon emissions. If modern slaves were a country, they would be the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, after China and the United States. Concurrently, anthropogenic changes to the global ecosystem have significant impacts on human life, creating vulnerability and displacement that dri…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 47, Issue 4
Not Yet Dead
The Islamic State is an organization at the nexus of modern slavery and terrorism. This article provides the first in-depth analysis of how it regulated slavery. With a consideration of gendered approaches, it applies multiple data sources to reveal a three-part assessment of the forms, establishment, and regulation of slavery from 2014 to 2017. Beginning with the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, it reveals the logistics of slavery through an innovat…
How many trafficked people are there in Greater New Orleans? Lessons in measurement
Researchers in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking have faced significant challenges in estimating the prevalence of victimization since the emergence of the field in the 1990s. 1 Human trafficking is a hidden crime, which for several reasons is not amenable to the most widely applied approaches to measuring crime and victimization, especially in wealthy nations such as the U.S. where trafficking is less prevalent and more hidden. R…
The Slave Next Door
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern day slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States. In The Slave Next Door we find that slaves are all around us, hidden in plain sight: the dishwasher in the kitchen of the neighborhood restaurant, the kids on the corner selling cheap trinkets, the man sweeping the floor of the local department st…
Slavery as Social Institution
Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations
This chapter aims to provide a subtle understanding of the ways slavery can be measured, predicted, and identified in modern society, both in terms of the wider social and economic factors that support modern slavery and the individual lived experience of enslavement. It uses specific indicators to measure the risk of enslavement in certain nations, communities, and/or regions. It also discusses the factors that support human trafficking and slav…
Disposable People
Anti-Slavery and the Redefining of Justice
Across time and cultures slavery has been, and is, ubiquitous. From the beginning of written history and into the twentieth century, slaves provided both the motive power of empire building and were the householder’s clever and useful beast of burden, while sustaining the power that in turn legitimised their subjugation. The abolition of legal slavery, a process taking nearly two centuries once begun, was a profound transformation in human histor…
To Plead Our Own Cause
Behind closed doors
Purpose Kevin Bales' work on contemporary slavery has brought this under‐researched field of social enquiry to the attention not only of the academic world but to a wider global audience through his prolific publishing, his film work and not least his presidency of Free the Slaves, the US anti‐slavery organisation. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of his findings and methodologies currently prevailing in this field. Design/methodology…
The Slave Next Door
Ending Slavery
In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling …
What Predicts Human Trafficking
If the international community has achieved agreement on the definition of human trafficking, we still have only a partial understanding of what drives it. We know that poverty and vulnerability represent ‘push‐factors’ and that employment opportunity presents an important ‘pull‐factor.’ But which of these factors is the most important? The regression analysis of 76 variables undertaken here confirms that corruption, poverty, conflict, and the ‘p…
Ending Slavery
"In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling…
Disposable People
What Predicts Human Trafficking
If the international community has achieved agreement on the definition of human trafficking, we still have only a partial understanding of what drives it. We know that poverty and vulnerability represent ‘push‐factors’ and that employment opportunity presents an important ‘pull‐factor.’ But which of these factors is the most important? The regression analysis of 76 variables undertaken here confirms that corruption, poverty, conflict, and the ‘p…
How many trafficked people are there in Greater New Orleans? Lessons in measurement
Researchers in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking have faced significant challenges in estimating the prevalence of victimization since the emergence of the field in the 1990s. 1 Human trafficking is a hidden crime, which for several reasons is not amenable to the most widely applied approaches to measuring crime and victimization, especially in wealthy nations such as the U.S. where trafficking is less prevalent and more hidden. R…
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude”
From forests to factories
Globally those in slavery, though small in absolute numbers (est. 40.2 million), contribute disproportionately to environmental destruction and carbon emissions. If modern slaves were a country, they would be the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, after China and the United States. Concurrently, anthropogenic changes to the global ecosystem have significant impacts on human life, creating vulnerability and displacement that dri…
Not Yet Dead
The Islamic State is an organization at the nexus of modern slavery and terrorism. This article provides the first in-depth analysis of how it regulated slavery. With a consideration of gendered approaches, it applies multiple data sources to reveal a three-part assessment of the forms, establishment, and regulation of slavery from 2014 to 2017. Beginning with the August 2014 Sinjar massacre, it reveals the logistics of slavery through an innovat…
Measuring the Propensity to Volunteer
As charities are expected to take on more and more of the provision of services to the disadvantaged, they will be calling on volunteers to support that work. The use of volunteers means important cost savings when compared to the use of paid service providers, thus giving one advantage to the voluntary sector when bidding in the mixed economy of welfare. Given the potential for increased use of volunteers, questions of motivation and commitment …
Lives and Labours in the Emergence of Organised Social Research, 1886-1907
Charles Booth's seventeen volume Life and Labour of the People of London has been called the first social survey. It demonstrated the techniques of organised social research, and proved an impetus to the Social Survey Movement. In spite of its key position in the emergence of empirical sociology, little attention has been paid to the organisation of Booth's research team which was to provide a template for the subsequent development of organised …
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
New Slavery
A shocking account of how slavery continues to afflict millions around the world today—from children in the carpet trade in Asia, to immigrants forced into prostitution in Europe, to domestic workers in the United States and other Western countries. New Slavery: A Reference Handbookis as scholarly as it is shocking—a gripping account of modern slavery, from Pakistan to Paris, Nepal to New York. From bonded laborers in India and prostitutes in Tha…
Understanding Global Slavery
Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people—in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broa…
Slavery and the human right to evil
(2004). Slavery and the human right to evil. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 53-63
The Dual Labor Market of the Criminal Economy
Behind closed doors
Purpose Kevin Bales' work on contemporary slavery has brought this under‐researched field of social enquiry to the attention not only of the academic world but to a wider global audience through his prolific publishing, his film work and not least his presidency of Free the Slaves, the US anti‐slavery organisation. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of his findings and methodologies currently prevailing in this field. Design/methodology…
Buying Freedom
Foreword by Kevin Bales vii Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl 1 PART I: THE ECONOMICS OF REDEMPTION 7 Chapter 1: Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption by Dean S. Karlan and Alan B. Krueger 9 Chapter 2: Slave Redemption When It Takes Time to Redeem Slaves by Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton 20 Chapter 3: An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option? by Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. …
New Slavery
Horrific as it may seem, today there are some 27 million slaves in the world. New Slavery brings into focus the reality of contemporary slavery with vivid examples drawn from recent cases from Sudan and India to France and the United States
Nicole Oresme and Medieval Social Science The 14th Century Debunker of Astrology Wrote an Early Monetary Treatise
Nicole Oresme practised the medieval equivalent of the modern sociological technique of debunking. He was born about 1320 and attended the College of Navarre in Paris. King John II and especially his son, Charles V, were patrons of Oresme's work. In a period when astrology was the dominant paradigm in the explanation of human behavior, Oresme wrote extensively denouncing it. His attacks were based on reason and experience, and went beyond the tur…
The Dual Labor Market of the Criminal Economy
Determinants in the perceptions of visual blight
Reclaiming ‘antique’ data
The place of Charles Booth's London poverty survey within an empirical tradition of sociology has been much discussed in recent years. The pivotal position which Booth had in this tradition was highlighted by Philip Abrams especially. Booth's achievement, it has been claimed, was to illuminate the structural underpinnings of poverty rather than just its extent. In doing so he not only challenged the assumptions of political economy but brought ne…
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
Journal Article The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880–1940. Ed. by Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales, and Kathryn Kish Sklar. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xx, 383 pp. $64.50, ISBN 0-521-36334-9.) Get access Ellen Fitzpatrick Ellen Fitzpatrick Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pa…
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
List of figures List of tables List of maps Notes on contributors Preface 1. The social survey in historical perspective Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sylar 2. The social survey in social perspective, 1830-1930 Eileen Janes Yeo 3. Charles Booth's survey of Life and Labour of the People in London 1889-1903 Kevin Bales 4. Hull-House Maps and Papers: social science as women's work in the 1890s Kathryn Kish Sylar 5. The place of social …
Measuring the Propensity to Volunteer
As charities are expected to take on more and more of the provision of services to the disadvantaged, they will be calling on volunteers to support that work. The use of volunteers means important cost savings when compared to the use of paid service providers, thus giving one advantage to the voluntary sector when bidding in the mixed economy of welfare. Given the potential for increased use of volunteers, questions of motivation and commitment …
Lives and Labours in the Emergence of Organised Social Research, 1886-1907
Charles Booth's seventeen volume Life and Labour of the People of London has been called the first social survey. It demonstrated the techniques of organised social research, and proved an impetus to the Social Survey Movement. In spite of its key position in the emergence of empirical sociology, little attention has been paid to the organisation of Booth's research team which was to provide a template for the subsequent development of organised …
Retrieved Riches
Part 1: Social and economic thought - 1. social facts social theory and social change: ideas of Booth in relation to those of Beatrice Webb, Octavia Hill and Helen Bosanquet, Jane Lewis 2. between civic virtue and social Darwinism: concept of residuum, Jose Harris 3. Charles Booth as an under-consumptionist economist, Alon Kadish Part 2: methods of social inquiry - 4. comparisons and contrasts: Henry Mayhew and Charles Booth as social investigato…
Popular Reactions to Sociological Research
When Charles Booth first published his research on poverty in London in 1886 he became what might have been the first sociological `household name'. His findings were widely reported around the world and across newspapers of very different political orientation. As social scientists continue to grapple with the difficulties and rewards of publicity it is worth looking back to this first instance of the political and media uses of social research.…
New Slavery
Horrific as it may seem, today there are some 27 million slaves in the world. New Slavery brings into focus the reality of contemporary slavery with vivid examples drawn from recent cases from Sudan and India to France and the United States
Disposable People
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude”
Disposable People
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a one intricately linked to t…
Slavery and the human right to evil
(2004). Slavery and the human right to evil. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 53-63
Understanding Global Slavery
Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, it has previously been noted by the author of this book that more than twenty-seven million people—in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States—are still trapped in bondage. The book looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described previously to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended. Written to raise awareness and deepen u…
Slavery in the Twentieth Century - The Evolution of a Global Problem (review)
Reviewed by: Slavery in the Twentieth Century – The Evolution of a Global Problem by Suzanne Miers Kevin Bales Slavery in the Twentieth Century – The Evolution of a Global Problem. By Suzanne Miers, Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2003. In the early 1990’s I began to research contemporary forms of slavery and had my first encounter with the then new CD-ROM technology. Having set aside two weeks over Spring Break to follow the paper trail, I was ama…
Understanding Global Slavery
Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people—in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broa…
New Slavery
A shocking account of how slavery continues to afflict millions around the world today—from children in the carpet trade in Asia, to immigrants forced into prostitution in Europe, to domestic workers in the United States and other Western countries. New Slavery: A Reference Handbookis as scholarly as it is shocking—a gripping account of modern slavery, from Pakistan to Paris, Nepal to New York. From bonded laborers in India and prostitutes in Tha…
Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe
Departing from analyses that focus on the role of the state in the arena of human rights, the authors of this original collection offer conceptually sophisticated, but accessible, discussions of the role and responsibility of nonstate actors with regard to the violation, promotion, and protection of human rights
Ending Slavery
In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling …
What Predicts Human Trafficking
If the international community has achieved agreement on the definition of human trafficking, we still have only a partial understanding of what drives it. We know that poverty and vulnerability represent ‘push‐factors’ and that employment opportunity presents an important ‘pull‐factor.’ But which of these factors is the most important? The regression analysis of 76 variables undertaken here confirms that corruption, poverty, conflict, and the ‘p…
Buying Freedom
Foreword by Kevin Bales vii Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl 1 PART I: THE ECONOMICS OF REDEMPTION 7 Chapter 1: Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption by Dean S. Karlan and Alan B. Krueger 9 Chapter 2: Slave Redemption When It Takes Time to Redeem Slaves by Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth A. Swinnerton 20 Chapter 3: An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option? by Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. …
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