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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Examples of bonded labor
bonded labor
Iqbal Masih was forced into bonded labor at four and escaped at age 10.
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Others fall victim to forced or bonded labor in their own countries.
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By the turn of the 18th century, African slaves were becoming the primary source of bonded labor.
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While lifetime cases of forced labor, slavery and bonded labor do exist, he says they are the exception.
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Bonded labor is the oldest idea in American labor markets.
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In Pakistan, human rights groups say kiln owners often dupe the poor into bonded labor by giving them loans.
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Forced labor and bonded labor were widespread.
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The IOM says children are trafficked within the country to work as beggars or as bonded labor in the brick kiln and carpet making industries.
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In addition to economic progress, she can point to improved labor relations, abolition of rural debts and bonded labor, and a more efficient bureaucracy.
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