labor camp
- Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- a camp for the shelter of migratory farm workers.
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Origin of labor camp
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Otherwise the tenement and labor-camp experiences in America would soon spoil them.
Aliens or Americans?Howard B. Grose
Let's go; I want a look at what's going on down at the equipment-park and the labor-camp, first.
Uller UprisingHenry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
"Try landing south of the Reservation, a little west of the ruins of the labor-camp," he advised.
Uller UprisingHenry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr