Kevin Bales: Anelyse Weiler

Chattel Slaves Dept: Kevin Bales, a TED Talks speaker, provides support for the claims made by reporters Anelyse Weiler and Gerardo Otero about temporary workers, according to Vancouver Sun. Though chattel slaves still exist, and as in earlier centuries are owned for life and sold as commodities, debt and contract slaves are different and Re: Reforms needed to grant temporary workers more protection , March 16 Bales reveals the distressing fact that large numbers of temporary workers are often the contemporary equivalents of serfs, with a key distinction. Bales shows that the employment conditions of millions of temporary workers worldwide define them as debt slaves or contract slaves to distinguish them from chattel slaves, which are the personal property of their owners. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.