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forced labor
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work people are employed in, but against their will
Forced labor is work that people are made to do against their will, often under threat or coercion. It matters because it violates basic human rights and freedoms, and is recognized internationally as a serious form of exploitation and abuse.
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Research
12,746 papers- Forced labor and health-related outcomes. The case of beggar children.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Drydakis NDOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106490
- The second stage of labor.ReviewAmerican journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2024Cohen WR, Friedman EADOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.06.014
- Satellites can reveal global extent of forced labor in the world's fishing fleet.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021McDonald GG, Costello C, Bone J et al.DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016238117
- Forced Labor in Surgical and Healthcare Supply Chains.Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2018Sandler S, Sonderman K, Citron I et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.10.003
- Travail multitâche, sécurité des soins et bien-être au travail.Revue de l'infirmiere · 2020Perelvaig FDOI: 10.1016/S1293-8505(20)30239-6
- Challenges and perspectives of child labor.ReviewIndustrial psychiatry journal · 2018Radfar A, Asgharzadeh SAA, Quesada F et al.DOI: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_105_14
- Identifying victims of labor trafficking.JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants · 2024Meredith ACDOI: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000995652.37567.c2
- Human Trafficking.2026Toney-Butler TJ, Ladd M, Mittel O
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- Subclass of
- authoritarianism
- Has part
- indentured servant
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- Bundesarchiv Bild 152-01-26, Dachau, Konzentrationslager.jpg
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- Unfree labour
- topic's main category
- Category:Forced labour
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- Strafgesetzbuch
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- WikiProject Human rights
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Encyclopedic overview
Clergy on forced labour, by Ivan Vladimirov (Soviet Russia, 1919)
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
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