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Golfo Alexopoulos suggests comparing labor in the Gulag with "other forms of slave labor" and notes its "violence of human exploitation" in Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag: [285] Stalin's Gulag was, in many ways, less a concentration camp than a forced labor camp and less a prison system than a system of slavery.
However, unfree labor still existed legally in the form of the peonage system, especially in the New Mexico Territory, debt bondage, penal labor and convict leasing, and debt bondage such as the truck system, as well as many illegal forms of unfree labor, particularly sexual slavery. Labor reforms in the 19th and 20th eventually outlawed many ...
[65]: 272 Within a decade over 400 Native American children were purchased and used as a vital source of labor in Latter-day Saint homes until slavery was banned by the federal government in 1865. [66] US representative Justin Smith Morrill criticized LDS Church leaders and their theocratic laws on Indian slavery. He said that the laws were ...
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) is a book by the economists Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.Fogel and Engerman argued that slavery was an economically rational institution and that the economic exploitation of slaves was not as catastrophic as presumed, because there were financial incentives for slaveholders to maintain a basic level of material support ...
eliminating Forced Labor Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine — Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor; Slavery in the 21st century—BBC; Sex trade's reliance on forced labour—BBC; China's Forced Labour Camps—Laogai Research Foundation; The ILO Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL)
[15] [18] Entitled "Slavery and Justice," the document detailed the ways that the university benefited both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade and the labor of enslaved people. The report included seven recommendations for how the university should address this legacy. [19]
Supporters argued that "Proposition 6 ends slavery in California and upholds human rights and dignity for everyone. It replaces carceral involuntary servitude with voluntary work programs, has bipartisan support, and aligns with national efforts to reform the 13th Amendment .
Slavery was not usually hereditary; children of slaves were born free. In the Inca Empire, workers were subject to a mita instead of taxes which they paid by working for the government. Each ayllu, or extended family, would decide which family member to send to do the work. It is unclear if this labor draft or corvée counts as slavery