Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12034
• Author: Janice Kimball,Terence K. Huwe
• Published date: 01 July 2013
• Date: 01 July 2013

Recent Publications

TERENCE K. HUWE, Director of Library & Information Resources

JANICE KIMBALL, Library Assistant

Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia. By Sidd-

harth Kara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 978-0-231-

15848-0. 336 pp. $29.50

Kara provides an economic and historical overview of bonded labor, based on travels to

South Asia, Bangladesh, the India–Pakistan border, and beyond. He profiles the harsh reali-

ties of industries such as hand-woven-carpet making, tea farming, construction, and frozen-

shrimp production. He finds that this form of forced labor is violent, and it affects millions

of poverty-stricken men, women, and children who create very low-cost products aimed at

the global market. He follows supply chains that lead directly to Western consumers, making

explicit the link between regional bonded labor and what affluent consumers take for granted

at low cost. He offers ideas for action-oriented initiatives in conclusion that would set in

motion a movement to eliminate bonded labor in South Asia in a final and complete manner.

Brain Drain and Brain Gain: The Global Competition to Attract High-

Skilled Migrants. Edited by Tito Boeri, Herbert Brucker, Frederic

Doquier, and Hillel Rapoport. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2012. 978-0-1996-54826. 336 pp. $85.00.

This volume explores the changing face of global competition for high-skilled employees,

particularly those who earn advanced degrees and work in the “creative”occupations, IT,

and engineering. The United States has long been the leading destination and continues to

attract PhD candidates and graduates from emerging countries as well as the European

Union. But in recent times, an increasing number of nations have begun adopting immigra-

tion policies that attract skilled workers. The new status quo has led to both “brain drains”

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