Problem: When you're a social worker who has met Firdaus in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero or Lakshmi in Patricia McCormick's Sold. The meeting has made a social worker become increasingly aware of the insidious economics of human trafficking as it pertains to children in the global economy, inspiring them to do something about it. In a report to the local city council, this social worker will want to consider slavery's economic impact on your community and the global economy, including the cost to victims and survivors who are more often than not children. Firdaus' and Lakshmi's stories function as this test-cases, use either one of them or both to extrapolate from creative literature to the economic and social realities of other victims and survivors, explaining how human trafficking impacts local communities and the global economy.