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
How To Use bonded labor In A Sentence
- Even though it has been illegal for 70 years, there are an estimated 25,000 bonded laborers in Nepal.
- As part of JEEVIKA Day, a public dialogue was held on the extent of bonded labor in Karnataka, and the role of government to eradicate it. Free The Slaves: Bonded Labor is 'India's Version of Apartheid'
- While lifetime cases of forced labor, slavery and bonded labor do exist, he says they are the exception.
- Human trafficking incudes victims of the sex trade, forced or bonded labor, domestic servitude, forced marriage, organ removal and child soldiers. US, Ukraine Pledge To Combat Human Trafficking
- The documentaries also show that “bonded labor” in South Asia is an all-too-common form of slavery, which is “passed from generation to generation.”
- He also announced a crackdown on bonded labor and said his government will ban indiscriminate use of fetters in prisons and while producing prisoners in courts.