Sentences with phrase «slave labor force»

Once a happy floor waxer in Oddworld's biggest meat processing plant, Abe stumbles across his boss's secret plan to turn the factory's slave labor force into the latest in the RuptureFarms Tasty Treats line of novelty meat snacks.

And I had Florida for its strong effort to turn the teachers into a slave labor force.

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Modern slavery has become a catch - all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave - like exploitation.

King Leopold II «founded» the Congo Free State as «his own» private colony, and went on to make a huge fortune from it by forcing the Congolese into slave labor for ivory and rubber.

In Germany during the 1990s, victims of forced and slave labor during the Holocaust negotiating a compensation agreement with the German government objected that financial reparations alone would amount to blood money, an appeasement through payoff.

Slaves and Bond servants were part of the labor force in the day.

As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.

During a recent interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Winslow explained that in the past, Mexican drug cartels routinely kidnapped women and young girls — after murdering their husbands and fathers — and forced them into slave labor on giant marijuana farms.

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

This will push the issue of employer paid healthcare right to the front burner and topple the stranglehold the capitalists have had over this aspect to slave labor, and help to force a single payor system to our healthcare.

And, if you use a smartphone, use tablet, or own a game console, you may have as many as 8.6 slaves working for you, according to Slavery Footprint, a new online calculator and app that reveals how much your lifestyle depends on forced labor.

In 1864 Union Army troops forced a group of freed slaves into involuntary labor, digging a canal along the James River at Dutch Gap, Virginia.

Think «roman galley slave», «ponyboy» or «forced labor»!

We don't want to give the impression that the film is purely a comedy, it's far from it, dealing with the great Catholic Church scandal of the Magdalene Sisters who were forced into near - slave labor and separated from their children (Peter Mullan dealt with similar stories in his underrated directorial effort «The Magdalene Sisters «-RRB-.

There, he and the other soldiers were forced into slave labor, working on the Burma - Siam «Death Railway,» as it became known.

Stalin's plan for society was enforced by a huge secret police force and included the mass execution of political opponents, the forced starvation of millions of peasants, and a vast network of prison camps (gulags) erected to house slave labor.

There was a time, for example, when historians didn't worry much about the slave trade and the emergence of an economy based on forced labor.

As part of the forced relocation of the Cambodian population into the countryside, Raami and her family endure starvation, brutalization and slave labor.

It he'd been a more intelligent man he would have stopped at the armband phase and used state authority to force Jews into a permanent role as virtual slave labor.

At one point he and his grandfather only escape death because of a very fortunate coincidence, but shortly after that incident he and his father are taken prisoner and forced into slave labor under terrible circumstances.

Host institution Brown University has historical connections to the Trans - Atlantic slave trade and represents the intellectual and material wealth of a nation that was built on the forced labor of a Black underclass.

to bear the weight of the heavens Warm Up 2 With your partner, discuss the following topic: What do you already know about the slave trade out of Africa to / Americas and Caribbean The dispersal of Africans throughout the New World is directly related to slavery, as they were forced to go wherever labor was demanded.

Myint, 40, is among hundreds of former slave fishermen who returned to Myanmar following an Associated Press investigation into the use of forced labor in Southeast Asia's seafood industry.

If only the vast majority of patents owned by US corporations could be forced to utilize their patents by manufacturing them here instead of using foreign slave labor...!)