bonded labor
Noun
Meaning
a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States
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captivity
forced labor
slave labor
chattel slavery
bonded labour
forced labour
slave labour
illegal trafficking in human beings
biological slavery
adult slave
bonded labourers
forced services
forcible labor
human dealing
indentured service
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Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners ... I believe in Gandhi's philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.