captive labor
Coerced workforce toiling
Captive labor is work performed by people who cannot freely leave—prisoners, enslaved persons, or workers bound by debt or coercion.
The term emphasizes the involuntary nature of the arrangement: The factory relied on captive labor from the nearby prison.
It appears in discussions of forced labor, prison industry, and historical slavery.
- slaveryOwnership of people
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- ball and chainFetter limiting prisoner movement
chains · chain gang · prisoners · exploitation · human trafficking · sweatshop · indentured · conscript · trafficking · plantation · cotton fields · gulag · workhouse · toil · oppression · servitude · coercion · detention
captive laborat-will employment
Job without guaranteed duration
voluntary work · self-employment · freelance work · entrepreneurship · gig work
captive laborunionized labor
Workforce with collective representation
organized labor · fair employment · worker cooperative · collective bargaining · employee ownership
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