Wiktionary
alt. work which one is compelled to perform against one's will, especially in a condition of involuntary servitude as a prisoner or slave. n. work which one is compelled to perform against one's will, especially in a condition of involuntary servitude as a prisoner or slave.
Usage examples of "forced labor".
The main topic was a transfer by railroad of large numbers of European Jews to the conquered eastern territories, for forced labor on highways.
Some, the leaner ones, those who had been toughened by forced labor in landfill mines and oil plantations, seemed less worn by the flight.
Like the Totonaca men whom the Spaniards had put to forced labor, I made sure to be always carrying something like a plank of wood or a water skin, and to look as if I were taking it to some destination.
The forced labor gangs which built it had had a secondary function in mind, which didn't prevent it from being a perfectly good sewer most of the time.
A chaos of muddy streets and buildings going up by fits and starts, mansions and hovels and forced labor compounds, bars and brothels and fitting-out shops for the miners and planters, the hunters and slavers and prospectors pushing north into the great dark bulk of Africa.
Most of the humans were taken away, undoubtedly into forced labor camps.