Sentences with phrase «forced labourers»

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Though legally self - owning, wage - labourer's were forced to sell their labour to owners.

I have had various occupations over the years: labourer; merchant seaman; electrician in the Royal Air Force; maintenance technician in the food industry (factory), and worked in Saudi Arabia with the Saudi Air Force.

Inspired by the 1950s novel - turned - film, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Western travellers began flocking here decades ago to pay respects to the thousands of Australian, British, Dutch and other Allied POWs, and many more Asian labourers, who died while being forced to work on the Thai - Burma military supply railway from 1942 - 45.

Cases where someone must show how an injury compelled a job switch after an accident usually involve heavy labourers forced into more sedentary work, said Eric Goodman, a personal injury lawyer based in Vancouver.