Peonage
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Peonage is any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which the victim or a laborer has little control over employment or economic conditions. A peon is a
Foreman and country peon by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1823 - 1870)
Foreman and rebel peon by Martín León Boneo, 1901.
Punishment of peons employed by American railroad tycoon Henry Meiggs in Chile or Peru, 1862
Cartoon of Indictment of US Planters and negro peonage
Debt bondage
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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 obligations. Where the terms of the repaymen
Peonage
…in a historical and legal sense, peon generally referred to someone working in a compelled labor system (known as peonage). The term often refers to debt bondage or indentured servitude. The Spanish conquest of Mexico and Caribbean islands included peonage; the conquistadors forced natives to work for Spanish…
Child labor in brick kilns in Nepal
Workers storing rice in India in 1952
A worker preparing fish caught off the coast of South Africa