Globalization is the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets that transcend nation-state boundaries. In part, globalization disseminates practices, values, technology, and other human products throughout the globe. It must be acknowledged that forms of slavery and human trafficking are not just outcomes of globalization; they are part of the globalization process itself that involves a functional integration of dispersed economic activities. To illustrate this phenomenon, author Kevin Bales offers the example of the woman recruited in Thailand, and subsequently trafficked to other states as a sex-slave who generates money that is in turn recycled back into the Thailand brothel economy.