Zed Books

Zed Books edited the description of Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy Friday, August 28 2009.

• This book by a respected Financial Times journalist exposes the enormosenormous scale of contemporary slavery. From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant laborerslabourers are exploited and enslaved. Shelley shows that current unprecedented flows of migrant workers are a direct result of economic liberalization. The appalling conditions and legal abuses which confront these workers are not a pre-modern aberration, but an integral part of the global economy. Shelley argues that even governments, keen to protect big business, are complicit in this exploitation; their "law and order" approach on immigration being part of this complicity.

Zed Books edited the description of The Priest of Paraguay Thursday, August 27 2009.

• In 2008 the oldest one-party regime on earth was swept from power by a Catholic bishop. In The Priest of Paraguaym,Paraguay, Hugh O'Shaughnessy, one of the most respected commentators on Latin America, tells the story of how Fernando Lugo ended the 60 year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado party with the promise of a new, more egalitarian future, particularly for the country's indigenous people. Hugh O'Shaughnessy traces Lugo's life alongside the turbulent history of Paraguay -- from his early years in a family which fell victim to Stroessner to his release by the Vatican to follow a political calling. The book also locates Paraguay in the context of the changing landscape of Latin America politics as a whole.

Zed Books changed the title of The Priest of Paraguay Thursday, August 27 2009.