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n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of labour camp English)
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A labor camp (or labour, see spelling differences) or work camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment under the criminal code. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.
In the 20th century, a new category of labor camps developed for the imprisonment of virtual millions of people who were not criminals per se, but political opponents (real or imagined) and various so-called undesirables under the totalitarian, both communist and fascist regimes. Some of those camps were dubbed "reeducation facilities" for political coercion, but most others served as backbone of industry and agriculture for the benefit of the state especially in times of war. Labor camps of forced labor were abolished by Convention no. 105 of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), adopted internationally on 27 June 1957.
Usage examples of "labor camp".
Most probably they were sold to a labor camp on the Moon, which is why they haven’.
For him, depending on the nature of the place where he has been caught, exposure can mean terrible torture, a long spell in a labor camp, or a lonely death.
For the High Brass who had just dropped that metal token in the Blademaster's waiting palm had, not long before, sat granite-faced to sentence him to a labor camp for life.
For the High Brass who had just dropped that metal token in the Blademasters waiting palm had, not long before, sat granite-faced to sentence him to a labor camp for life.
Better be cooked at once in a blaster flame than live in a labor camp for life.
The penalty will be one kilorev in a labor camp for the first offense.
He was too tired to harbor resentment against the government that had tagged him and probed him, then ordered him out here into the labor camp, away from his comforts, to do such unskilled work as was required of him, along with a motley collection of people of vague abilities and numerous reasons that made them unsuitable for military service.
I want to put an end to it, to scoop that all up, and send them all to a labor camp of strict regime.