labor camp

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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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Labor and Socialist International, laborare est orare, laboratory, laboratory diagnosis, laboratory school, labor camp, Labor Day, labored, laborer, labor force, labor-intensive

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Afterward, she was sent to a labor camp for two months, where she sewed gloves until she says her neck ached and her eyes turned bloodshot.
How Beijing Is Redefining What It Means to Be Chinese, from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia|CHARLIE CAMPBELL/SHANGHAI|July 12, 2021|Time
Multinationals work hard to avoid getting pulled into geopolitics, but reports of labor camps out of Xinjiang–which produces about 20% of the world’s cotton–made it much harder for them to continue doing so.
Facing Boycotts H&M and Nike Are Learning the New Price of Doing Business in China|Ian Bremmer|April 1, 2021|Time
Nike thought its measured responses were an acceptable balance, not drawing too much of Beijing’s ire while also acknowledging the concerns of Western consumers about possible labor camps.
Facing Boycotts H&M and Nike Are Learning the New Price of Doing Business in China|Ian Bremmer|April 1, 2021|Time
Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”
The Cult of Yung Lean: ‘I’m Building An Anarchistic Society From the Ground Up’|Marlow Stern|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats|Daniel DiSalvo|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism|Louise I. Shelley|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

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