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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slave labour
noun
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▪ An end to child abuse and slave labour?
▪ Boat people, refugee camps, people-smugglers, slave labour and much of the world's poverty are the result.
▪ It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees.
▪ The canals linking the city to St Petersburg in the south were built by slave labour in Stalin's days.
▪ The industry is desperate to shake off the allegation that the chocolate sold in the West may be tainted by slave labour.
▪ This was only one of the disadvantages of a slave labour force.
▪ With slave labour they were cheaper to build than it was to provide the necessary lead or bronze piping for alternative means.
▪ Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
Wiktionary
slave labour

alt. 1 Using slaves to do work 2 (context figuratively English) The employment of workers for meagre pay to do tedious tasks. n. 1 Using slaves to do work 2 (context figuratively English) The employment of workers for meagre pay to do tedious tasks.

Wikipedia
Slave Labour (mural)

Slave Labour is a mural that was painted by a British graffiti artist, Banksy, on the side wall of a Poundland store in Wood Green, London in May 2012. The artwork is 48.03 inches (122cm) high by 59.84 inches (152cm) wide, and depicts an urchin child at a sewing machine assembling a bunting of Union Jack patches. The work was a protest against the use of sweatshops to manufacture Diamond Jubilee and London Olympics memorabilia in 2012.

In February 2013 the mural was removed from its location and put up for sale at Fine art Auctions in Miami, US. After an appeal from the residents of Wood Green the mural was withdrawn from sale in the US and returned to the UK. It was sold at an auction in Covent Garden, London for (USD) $1.2 million.

Usage examples of "slave labour".

By slave labour, you receive the least possible return for the greatest possible expense, for the slave is better fed and clothed than the freeman, and does as little work as he can.

The base of this pyramid is underpinned by a large reservoir of slave labour.

Wherever they went they carried with them terror and destruction, a living death and death itself, the slow death of the aged in deportee camps and the young in the slave labour camps, the quick death of the summary executions and the ghastly, insane screaming deaths of those who succumbed to the most abominable tortures ever conceived of the evil that lay buried deep in the hearts of the satanic perverts who find their way into the political police of dictatorships the world over.

Jadwiga was a major camp of slave labour which manufactured many things essential to the German war effort.

Ne-Issan's prosperity was based on the concept of firstand second-class citizens, underpinned by a pool of slave labour non-persons.