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About this book
The men and women inInvisible Handsreveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators — including phone manufacturers in China, copper miners in Zambia, garment workers in Bangladesh, and farmers around the world — reveal the secret history of the things we buy, including lives and communities devastated by low wages, environmental degradation, and political repression. Sweeping in scope and rich in detail, these stories capture the interconnectivity of all people struggling to support themselves and their families. Narrators include Kalpona, a leading Bangladeshi labor organizer who led her first strike at 15; Han, who, as a teenager, began assembling circuit boards for an international electronics company based in Seoul; Albert, a copper miner in Zambia who, during a wage protest, was shot by representatives of the Chinese-owned mining company that he worked for; and Sanjay, who grew up in the shadow of the Bhopal chemical disaster, one of the worst industrial accidents in history. Download the corresponding lesson plans on the Voice of Witness website.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Additional Research for the 2022 Edition
- Contents
- Preface to the 2022 Edition
- Foreword: Stories That Demand Change
- Introduction: Meeting in the Marketplace
- Executive Editor’s Note
- Map of Narrator Locations in this Book
- The Garment Industry: A Struggle for Fair Wages
- Agriculture: The Original Global Economy
- Resource Extraction: Buying and Selling the Earth
- Electronics: Novel Technologies, Familiar Problems
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- About Voice of Witness
- The Voice of Witness Book Series
- About Haymarket Books
- Back Cover