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Also known as unfree labor, slave labor

work people are employed in, but against their will

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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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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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