From Social Innovation Conversations, Siddharth Kara discusses the findings of his most recent book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sex trafficking is the most highly profitable — and exploitative — component of contemporary slavery. In this talk, author and former investment banker Siddharth Kara exposes the mechanisms behind this little-understood industry. Amidst disturbing anecdotes taken from his study of hundreds of slaves and their “owners” in eight countries, Kara offers a business and economic analysis of the sex slave industry and critiques attempts to date to abolish sex trafficking. He proposes measures that could eradicate this form of livelihood by undermining its profitability. Kara spoke as part of a workshop sponsored jointly by the Forum on Contemporary Europe and the Center for Social Innovation’s Public Management Program at Stanford University.

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E. Benjamin Skinner is a fellow at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, has written A Crime So Monstrous. The following excerpts are from a talk, Face to Face with Modern Slavery (Fora.tv), in march:

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