Definitions for slave-labor

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Slave-Labor is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 557 anagrams from letters in slave-labor (-aabellorsv).

Definitions for slave-labor

noun

1. persons, especially a large group, performing labor under duress or threats, as prisoners in a concentration camp; a labor force of slaves or slavelike prisoners.
2. labor done by slaves.
3. any coerced or poorly remunerated work:

Origin of slave-labor

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for slave-labor

Free labor is far cheaper and more efficient than slave labor.

More than one-half of its territory is wholly unfit for the slave labor; and, therefore, in the nature of things must be free.

The chances are that its resources would have been exploited by slave labor.

In a word, it was the highest type of the product of slave labor.

Nor is this the product of slave labor, like the sugar of Cuba.

After May 1865, the 25 percent tax was imposed only upon the produce of slave labor.

If slave labor, then, is profitable, slaveholding is equitable.

slave labor was founded on slave discipline, and the discipline on punishment.

The increased value of slave labor, in the culture of cotton and sugar, prevented the realization of this expectation.

slave labor can never be so cheap as what is called free labor.