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 or Bandhua Mazdoori (बंधुआ मज़दूरी) 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Indonesian men and women is that posed by conditions of forced labor and debt bondage in more developed Asian countries and the Middle East. The government...

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...

A Haliya (Nepali: हलिया) is an agricultural bonded labourer who works on another person's land. The literal meaning of Haliya is "one who ploughs". Haliyas...

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...

Operation Barga was a land reform movement, throughout rural West Bengal for recording the names of sharecroppers (bargadars) while avoiding the time-consuming...

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...

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

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

Indian government passed the Bonded Labor System Act in an effort to end debt bondage in India, a practice which contributes to generational poverty. Nevertheless...

In historical Chilean agriculture, an inquilino was a laborer who was indebted to a landlord and allowed to establish a farm on certain portions of the...

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

proportion laboured beneath a chronic and spiralling cycle of debt that ended in debt bondage and the loss of their landholdings due to land grabbing. The...

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...

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...

in an unfree labor system (known as peonage). The word often implied debt bondage or indentured servitude. The Spanish conquest of Mexico and Caribbean...

how the underage workers experienced "exploitation from debt bondage (repaying smuggling debts)" and that "some children expressed fear of deportation...

community were unwilling to take on the widows' debts for themselves. Agricultural insurance in India Debt bondage in India Farmers' suicides in Canada Farmers'...