People: Contemporary Global Slavery Bales, Kevin; Soodalter, Ron (2009). The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today Bales, Kevin; Trodd, Zoe; Williamson, Alex Kent (2009). Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People Bales, Kevin (2016). Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World Chapters in books and 19 others and 20 articles. Criticism In 2007 in response to Kevin Bales' interview with Democracy Now! about Free The Slaves, investigative journalist Christian Parenti wrote a criticism of Bales claiming he had made false claims about the chocolate industry. Specifically, Parenti argues that "Bales goes around fund raising, flogging his book and promoting himself on the basis that he has successfully reformed the chocolate industry and largely halted its use of child labor in West Africa. But no such thing has happened... Bales’ organization FTS defended the chocolate industry when the Department of Labor sought to list cocoa as a product tainted by slave and child labor." Bales' work has also come under critique by sociologist Julia O'Connell Davidson. References External links Speaker's Forum: Kevin Bales - How to End Slavery (audio), KUOW-FM TED Talk: How to combat modern slavery (TED2010), also on Academics of the University of Roehampton Living people 1952 births Academics of the University of Nottingham Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George