slave labor

noun

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.
labor done by such a labor force.
any coerced or poorly remunerated work:
Data entry at that salary is slave labor.

First recorded in 1810–20

This borderline slave labor cannot be blamed on any one person; it's systemic.

Soviet communism in the age of Stalin was ruthlessly devoted to constructing a gigantic slave-labor system in the prison camps.

This is my country too, it was built largely on free black—slave—labor.

Well, I hoped never to eat a supper procured by slave-labor.

When, later on, slave labor gave way before serf labor, the social relations were again modified to correspond.

Resolutions were also passed to encourage Southern manufacturers to employ slave labor in their factories.

You can never clear up a wild country like that without slave-labor, depend upon it.

Free labor will produce all these things, and everything you have to-day has been produced by free labor, nothing by slave labor.

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