forced labour

  • 1forced labour — ➔ labour * * * forced labour UK US noun [U] UK ► the use of prisoners as unpaid workers: »Activists say the pipeline is being built with forced labour …

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  • 2forced labour — BrE forced labor AmE n [U] when prisoners or ↑slaves are forced to do very hard physical work, or a system in which this happens ▪ Two million suffered imprisonment or forced labour …

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  • 3forced labour — noun Compulsory hard labour, as a punishment for a crime • • • Main Entry: ↑force …

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  • 4forced labour — also called  Slave Labour,         labour performed involuntarily and under duress, usually by relatively large groups of people. Forced labour differs from slavery in that it involves not the ownership of one person by another but rather merely… …

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  • 5Forced labour camps in Communist Albania — Forced labour camps in Communist Albania …

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  • 6Forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria — As in other Eastern European Soviet satellite states, the People s Republic of Bulgaria operated a network of forced labour camps between 1944 and 1989, with particular intensity until 1962. Tens of thousands of prisoners were sent to these… …

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  • 7Forced Labour Convention, 1930 — Infobox ILO convention code= C29 name= Forced Labour Convention, 1930 adopt= June 28, 1930 force= May 1, 1932 classify= Forced Labour subject= Forced Labour prev= Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention, 1929 (shelved) next= Hours of… …

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  • 8forced-labour — /fɔst ˈleɪbə/ (say fawst laybuh) adjective of or relating to a camp or prison where conscripted civilian labour is used. Also, forced labor …

  • 9forced labour — UK / US noun [uncountable] hard physical work that someone is forced to do …

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  • 10Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 — Infobox ILO convention code= C105 name= Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 adopt= June 25, 1957 force= January 17, 1959 classify= Forced Labour subject= Forced Labour prev= Abolition of Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention,… …

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