forced labour
Work under duress
Forced labour is work extracted from people through coercion, threats, or deception—essentially modern slavery.
The term appears in international law and human rights contexts: The factory was shut down for using forced labour.
It encompasses debt bondage, human trafficking, and state-imposed work programs.
British spelling; Americans write forced labor.
- slaveryOwnership of people
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- work campFacility for compulsory labor
- debt bondageCoerced labor repaying loans
- exploitationSelfish use of others
oppression · coercion · indentured servitude · abuse · sweatshop · servitude · concentration camps · gulag · chain gang · serfdom · compel · human trafficking · war economy · cotton fields · punishment · penal colony · brick kiln · trafficking networks
- labourtoil, drudgery, hard work, factory work, domestic work
- colonialismcolony, colonization, colonial rule, colonial powers, colonizer
forced labourvoluntary work
Unpaid charitable labor
self-employment · freelancing · freelance work · entrepreneurship · at-will employment
forced labourliberty
Absence of unjust constraint
freedom · emancipation · manumission · free enterprise · human rights
force, forced, forces, forcing, forceful, forcefully, forcefulness, forcible, forcibly