What are some opposite words for bonded labor?
Antonyms for bonded laborbond·ed la·bor
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bonded labornoun
Synonyms:
debt bondagebonded labornoun
A form of indenture in which a loan is repaid by work, the worker being unable to leave until the debt is repaid
Synonyms:
debt bondage
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Princeton's WordNet
bonded labornoun
a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States
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There's a lot of trafficking and bonded labor in the industry, but it is a profitable business and owners are usually politically connected, so the authorities turn a blind eye.
The government, the police think bonded labor is when someone is tied up in chains or locked inside a room. They don't even acknowledge that these workers are bonded, we tell the workers they have a right to be paid, to not be beaten or abused, to have time off, to send their kids to school.
There are laws against bonded labor and against abuse, but these are poor, low-caste workers who are afraid of the higher-caste owners, they have to go back to the same fields to work. They have no option.
This is a big step for laborers that this has received so much attention, and that their voices have reached a global stage and we are being heard. With this we hope to end bonded labor in Pakistan.
The kilns themselves are mostly illegal, so keeping track of them is hard and they keep no records, there's a lot of trafficking and bonded labor in the industry, but it is a profitable business and owners are usually politically connected, so the authorities turn a blind eye.
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