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Definition of Bonded labor
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Bonded labor
1. Noun. A form of indenture in which a loan is repaid by work, the worker being unable to leave until the debt is repaid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonded Labor
Literary usage of Bonded labor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Small Hands of Slavery: bonded child labor in India by Human Rights Watch/Asia (1996)
"Neither standing alone is sufficient. bonded labor is a vast, pernicious, and
long-standing social ill, and the tenacity of the bonded labor ..."
2. Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" by Smita Narula (1999)
"bonded labor "bonded labor" refers to work in slave-like conditions in order to
pay off a debt. Due to the high interest rates charged and the abysmally low ..."
3. Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan by Farhad Karim (1995)
"bonded labor, and make recommendations for measures Pakistan could take to
eliminate bonded labor. * Review all export licenses and withdraw them from any ..."
4. Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff (1996)
"Human Rights Watch was particularly concerned about the use of bonded labor,
including bonded child labor. It remained to be seen whether these efforts ..."
5. Human Rights Watch World Report 1998 by Human Rights Watch Staff (1997)
"The Indian government's failure to enforce its own laws against bonded labor had
condemned millions of children to lives of grueling labor in unsafe ..."
6. Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked Into Debt Bondage in Japan by Kinsey Dinan (2000)
"... fraud, deception, coercion or abuse of power for the purposes of slavery,
forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and servitude. ..."
7. By the Sweat and Toil of Children: The Use of Child Labor in U. S by Maureen E. Jaffe, Monica Mills, Sonia A. Rosen, Robert B. Shepard (1997)
"290 A recent news report in the Rising Nepal estimates that there are 55000 bonded
Kamaiya families in five districts 286 "Child bonded labor" at 5. ..."
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