1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00187694

Autore

BLUMENTHAL, Tuvia

Titolo

Saving in postwar Japan / Tuvia Blumenthal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Harvard University Press, 1970

Descrizione fisica

XI, 117 p ; 28 cm.

Soggetti

GIAPPONE - Economia - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910647296503321

Autore

Brennan Denise <1964->

Titolo

Life interrupted : trafficking into forced labor in the United States

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

9781478093244

1478093242

9780822376910

0822376911

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Classificazione

PH 3890

Disciplina

331.11

331.11/730973

Soggetti

Foreign workers -- Abuse of -- United States

Human rights -- United States

Human trafficking -- United States

Foreign workers - Abuse of - United States

Human trafficking - United States

Human rights - United States

Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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