![]() ![]() by scraping away at layers of corporate misdirection, by asking and asking again and not letting go, Simpson reached something naked and ugly and unimpeachably true. ![]() But Simpson attributes thoughts to Kamala too freely, stumbling into clichés. He builds the book’s plot around Kamala Magar, the 19-year-old wife of one of the murdered workers. It is unfortunate, given this achievement, that Simpson felt it necessary to remove himself from the heart of the story. He has given us an anatomy of globalized labor at its most shameful, complete with the internal correspondence of American military and Kellogg Brown & Root officials reporting coerced labor and human trafficking to their superiors. It’s so ubiquitous that it’s easy to stop seeing it. ![]() The globalization of labor is the overarching story of Asia, hauling millions of families out of desperate poverty and trapping millions of workers in something close to slavery. ![]() There is no journalist working in South Asia or the Middle East who is not surrounded by shades of human trafficking-from apparently benign examples, like the nannies and drivers who serve their own homes, to more obviously coercive arrangements, including the children sent to work as housemaids in South Delhi bungalows. The girl from Kathmandu : twelve dead men and a womans quest for justice / Cam Simpson. Simpson’s obsessive reporting is the book’s great strength. ![]()
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