11 Facts About Unfree labour

Unfree labour includes all forms of slavery, penal labour and the corresponding institutions, such as debt slavery, serfdom, corvee and labour camps.

Many forms of unfree labour are covered by the term forced labour, which is defined by the International Labour Organization as all involuntary work or service exacted under the menace of a penalty.

Unfree labour is often more easily instituted and enforced on migrant workers, who have travelled far from their homelands and who are easily identified because of their physical, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural differences from the general population, since they are unable or unlikely to report their conditions to the authorities.

In many contexts, the use of unfree labour is prohibited under the law and is mainly associated with the underground economy.

Industries which continue to employ unfree labour worldwide include agriculture, domestic work, manufacture, and hospitality.

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Unfree labour re-emerged as an issue in the debate about rural development during the years following the end of the Second World War, when a political concern of Keynesian theory was not just economic reconstruction but planning .

Unfree labour argues that many of these new characteristics are in fact no different from those identified earlier by Marxist theory and that the exclusion of the latter approach from the debate is thus unwarranted.

From an international law perspective, countries that allow forced Unfree labour are violating international Unfree labour standards as set forth in the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, one of the fundamental conventions of the ILO.

In late 16th century Japan, "unfree labour" or slavery was officially banned; but forms of contract and indentured labour persisted alongside the period's penal codes' forced labour.

The best-known example of this are the concentration camp system run by Nazi Germany in Europe during World War II, the Gulag camps run by the Soviet Union, and the forced Unfree labour used by the military of the Empire of Japan, especially during the Pacific War .

In some countries and historical periods including the modern United States, prison Unfree labour has been forced upon people who have been victims of prejudice, convicted of political crimes, convicted of "victimless crimes", or people who committed theft or related offences because they lacked any other means of subsistence—categories of people who typically are entitled to compassion according to current ethical ideas.