Something stuck out to me in this review of McMafia over at the Times:
The tales of purest misery deal with human trafficking, a byproduct, Mr. Glenny argues, of globalization’s rigged game. When the advanced economies opened world markets to their goods but retained protectionist subsidies on their own agricultural sectors, they created a vast army of the dispossessed and the desperate, as well as a lucrative market in prostitution and illegal immigration.
When you hear your favorite candidate squawking about protecting “American” jobs and “American” farms, it’s important to remember that in a global economy everything has an offset. Human trafficking is apparently one of the sadder ones.