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slave labor

奴工,奴隶制,奴隶劳动,奴隶制劳动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
    • : labor done by such a labor force.
    • : any coerced or poorly remunerated work: Data entry at that salary is slave labor.

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Examples

  • Some even worried that a new civil war might be brewing over the issue of wage rather than slave labor.

  • The truth we're shown during his address—of citizens being shipped off to the fields as forced slave labor or gunned down for resisting—is a non-revelation given the series' touchstones.

  • The rhetoric of a “natural inclination” toward a certain type of work was used to justify slave labor while conveniently eliding the fact that the entire economy of the South would collapse without it.

  • This was strikingly fast growth, and yet Louisiana was only the third-largest importer of slave labor in the 1830s.

  • Rather than deploy the policies of mass extermination and slave labor used in Eastern Europe, he courted them using propaganda and incentives.

  • Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

  • Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.

  • In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.

  • Many more illegal migrants face labor trafficking in Europe as they flee the conflict regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

  • In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.

  • All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

  • The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.

  • The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

  • Beggars are not abundant; but women are required to labor quite extensively in the fields.

  • Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.