Labour which is coerced and inadequately rewarded, or people that do it.
奴役，苦役；奴隶，苦工
most of production is carried out by slave labour
大部分生产由受奴役的苦工完成。
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Japan colonized Korea between 1910 and 1945, barring them from using their own language and forcing thousands into slave labour.
Most would have only been able to raise a deposit and would be forced to pay off the rest by working as virtual slave labour in restaurants and sweatshops, or as prostitutes.
Others, including several school friends, died the following year after working in terrible conditions as slave labour.
Jews were not only exterminated immediately, but could, particularly in times of labour shortage, be worked to death as slave labour.
It cannot compete against regimes that tolerate slave labour or forced child labour.
The centres of British power are crawling with paid representatives of corporations that directly profit from slave labour.
It's a common assumption that most homes had a slave or two, while most farms and quarries were almost exclusively worked by slave labor.
They send you to do what they call ‘volunteer labour’ which really amounts to slave labour in the countryside.
It was slave labour and no one deserved to be treated in such a way.
Another report detailed the pressures on the rural poor to work under slave labour conditions in the country's garment factories or to resort to prostitution.
The blacks were, of course, used for slave labour, because that is just what the British did back then.
Chinese workers were imported to work the fields under slave labour conditions.
All processes carried on by slave labour are conducted in the rudest and most unimproved manner.
But he had no middle-class guilt, recognising from the first that the Soviet system depended on total repression, on slave labour and on the concentration camps.
The white planters in the English-speaking Caribbean were the ones compensated to the tune of some £200 million for the loss of slave labour.
Once inside, they were treated as slave labour and allowed no privileges.
The abolitionists and classical economists maintained that slave labour always retards long-term growth as well as social and moral progress.
But the implication that Europeans were indifferent to the colour of their slaves rests on an equivocation between unfree labour and slave labour.
Some owners bluntly told their slaves they did not want the financial burden of women and children without the reward of cheap slave labor.
Whole populations were deported to Germany for the purposes of slave labor upon defense works, armament production, and similar tasks connected with the war effort.