Kevin Bales touches upon the problem of slavery in the modern world in his work Disposable People . Many people may think that slavery is the remnant of the past. Kevin Bales points out that modern people are more enslaved than in the past. He provides examples of modern slavery from Pakistan and Thailand to other countries. The book consists of seven chapters devoted to particular cases of slavery from different corners of the world. Kevin Bales analyses five case studies in his work namely “sex slavery in Thailand; old-fashioned chattel slavery in Mauritania, with White Moor masters and Black slaves; charcoal-makers on the frontier in Brazil; brick-makers held inheritable debt-bondage in Pakistan, through fraud and dishonest accounting; and farmers in debt-bondage in India” (Yee, 2000). Bales presents the causes and results of these different types of slavery providing the experience of many individuals. He provides economic, political, and historical preconditions of slavery. The key point of his book is that the phenomenon of slavery is impossible to be eradicated. Although some people consider themselves to be free, they do not even pay attention to the organizations or owners they depend on. Slavery develops in modern society more than in the past centuries. It is futile to look for the guilty of the spreading of slavery all over the world. Bales has made profound research on many social phenomena captured in modern society. He has studied the current economic and political situations of the countries presented in his book that help him to present the phenomenon of slavery from different points of view. More than that, he refers to many historical sources in his book to present that the spreading of slavery is historically predetermined. Bales differentiates two types of slavery in his book. The ‘old’ slavery presupposes the ethnic and racial divisions and legal ownership that has been developed since the pre-Civil War. The ‘new’ slavery is based on legal instruments that make other people enslaved. These legal instruments are contracts, loans, lending, and debts. If the slavery developed in the past was based on ethnic identities the modern slavery is based on the material state. Poor people are more vulnerable to becoming slaves and working for low wages. Modern slavery combines both types described by Kevin Bales. It covers not only individuals but the whole region. There are a lot of poor districts that are enslaved by rich people. One of the main aims of Kevin Bales is the analysis and he tries to avoid sentiments in his book. He points out that it is very important to draw boundaries between slavery and poverty. He highlights this point of view in the following words: “slavery should not be confused with anything else: it is not prison labor, it is not all forms of child labor, it is not just being very poor and having few choices” (Bales 98). Nevertheless, he adds that these boundaries are quite fuzzy as far as modern slavery is often observed in poor countries than in developed ones. Kevin Bales do not criticize slaveholders in his book as far as morality is not the basic aim of his work. Slaveholders are not depicted as cruel and merciless owners who humble poor people. The notion of slavery is described as something inherited ethnical groups. The causes of slavery are