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...

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

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...

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...

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...

Indenture, also known as bonded labour or debt bondage, is a form of unfree labour in which a person works to pay off a debt by pledging himself or herself as...

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...

level." Landlord power may be based on control over local people through debt bondage passed down generation after generation, and power over the distribution...

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

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...

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

𒂼𒅈𒄄 ama-ar-gi4. Sumerians used it to refer to release from obligations, debt, slavery, taxation, or punishment. Ama-gi has been regarded as the first...

contractually waive the right to quit. Cruel and unusual punishment Debt bondage Indentured servitude Peon Person Slavery Wage slavery "Constitution of...

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...

Child prostitution is prostitution involving a child, and it is a form of commercial sexual exploitation of children. The term normally refers to prostitution...

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...

compelled labor system (known as peonage). The term often refers to debt bondage or indentured servitude. The Spanish conquest of Mexico and Caribbean...

"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...

trafficking of children, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, bride buying and debt bondage Organ trafficking People smuggling rings Antiquities trade operations...

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defaulted on a debt whose collateral was the debtor's personal freedom. The seisachtheia laws immediately cancelled all outstanding debts, retroactively...

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

"Pawns", a song on the 2017 Paloma Faith album The Architect Pawnship, debt bondage slavery Pawn, another name for a pledge in certain jurisdictions Doris...

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...

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...

Kailash Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to...

exploitative. They may also be structured as debt bondage, with the victim not being permitted or able to pay off the debt. It may encompass providing a spouse...

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