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bonded labor

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Noun1.bonded labor - 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
slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom, bondage - the state of being under the control of another person


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The virtually enslaved children toiling for Hussain Khan in his carpet factory revise this thinking when a new child laborer named Iqbal arrives: he plans to liberate them all, a feat that he finally achieves with the help of the Bonded Labor Liberation Front of Pakistan.
Francesco D'Adamo Iqbal by Beram, Nell / The Horn Book Magazine
Other types of bonded labor occur inside factories.
Child labor: the real solution. (2003 essay contest winners) by Miller, Sarah Rose / The Humanist
At eleven, he began to work with the Bonded Labor Liberation Front, and when he was thirteen years old, he was giving talks on the need to end child labor.
Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World by Rubin, Jacob / Radical Teacher
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