Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other...

Debt bondage in India (Hindi: बंधुआ मज़दूरी bandhua mazdoori) was legally abolished in 1976 but remains prevalent due to weak enforcement by the government...

modern variety of slavery; in non-industrialised countries, people in debt bondage are common, others include captive domestic servants, people in forced...

landowners. In theory, debt bondage slaves would be liberated when their original debts were repaid. Solon put an end to debt bondage with the σεισάχθεια...

erotic stimulation Self-bondage, use of restraints on oneself for erotic pleasure Serfdom, feudal enslavement of peasants Debt bondage, a form of slavery which...

closely related forms of unfree labour, such as debt slavery or debt-bondage (although not all repayment of debts through labour constitutes unfree labour)...

servants (debt bondage) until they paid off their debt in labor. Imprisonment for debt was also practised in Islam. Debtors who refused to pay their debts could...

"involuntary servitude", "slavery" or "practices similar to slavery", "debt bondage", and "forced labor". According to American professor Kevin Bales, co-founder...

Nexum was a debt bondage contract in the early Roman Republic. A debtor pledged his person as collateral if he defaulted on his loan. Details as to the...

Tebhaga movement (1946–1947) was significant peasant agitation, initiated in Bengal by the All India Kisan Sabha of peasant front of the Communist Party...

soul to the company store" are a reference to the truck system and to debt bondage. Under this scrip system, workers were not paid cash; rather they were...

Diodorus Siculus provides the following rationale for abolishing the debt bondage by pharaoh Bakenranef: "For it would be absurd... that a soldier, at...

areas by promises of money and care, and are kept there by threats, debt bondage and the fear of poverty.[better source needed] Angeles City is one of...

Debt relief or debt cancellation is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations...

passed in Ancient Rome that abolished the contractual form of nexum, or debt bondage. Livy dates the law in 326 BC, during the third consulship of Gaius Poetelius...

signed. It gives a more comprehensive definition of slavery to include debt bondage, serfdom, or any practice where a woman is promised or given into marriage...

Indian government passed the Bonded Labor System Act in an effort to end debt bondage in India, a practice which contributes to generational poverty. Nevertheless...

the ancient Near East regulated enslavement for debt and the related but distinct practice of debt bondage (in which a creditor could extract compulsory...

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Indonesian men and women is that posed by conditions of forced labor and debt bondage in more developed Asian countries and the Middle East. The government...

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Ministry of Labour has identified significant issues with migrant, home or bondage labourers and child labour. India has two broad groups of migrant labourers...

"kabala" (heavy debt bondage) condition following a monetary loan for percentage of which it had serve its creditor until completion of the debt payment. Legal...

debt bondage of its foreign workers and poor housing. In response, Top Glove pledged to improve housing for their workers and remove the debt bondage...

proportion laboured beneath a chronic and spiralling cycle of debt that ended in debt bondage and the loss of their landholdings due to land grabbing. The...

dictionary. Thrall is from the Old Norse þræll, meaning a person who is in bondage or serfdom. The Old Norse term was lent into late Old English, as þræl...

Robert Nozick. Murray Rothbard allows for the possibility of a system of debt bondage, arguing that lifetime labor contracts could be broken as long as slaves...

them directly into situations of forced labour, including debt bondage; in other cases, high debts incurred to pay recruitment fees left them vulnerable to...

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interrupted and prevented the men from killing Northup, reminding Tibaut of his debt to Ford, and chasing them off at gunpoint. Northup was left bound and noosed...