penal labour

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• Penal labour — Female convicts chained together by their necks for work on a road. Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika c.1890 1927. Penal labour is a form of unfree labour in which prisoners perform work, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending… …   Wikipedia

• Labour law — concerns the inequality of bargaining power between employers and workers. Labour law (also called labor law or employment law) is the body of laws, administrative rulings, and precedents which address the legal rights of, and restrictions on,… …   Wikipedia

• Penal colony — Epigraphy in honour of a prisoner in the Australian penal colony of Botany Bay. A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant… …   Wikipedia

• Labour — [ Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).] Labour or labor may refer to:* Work of any kind * Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it * Manual labour, physical work done by people * Childbirth, especially from the start… …   Wikipedia

• penal colony — Distant or overseas settlement established to punish criminals with forced labour and isolation from society. Such colonies were developed mostly by the English, French, and Russians. Britain sent criminals to its American colonies until the… …   Universalium

• Penal Code (Singapore) — The Penal Code of Singapore [Singapore Statute | c ed = 1985] sets out general principles of the criminal law of Singapore, as well as the elements and penalties of common criminal offences such as homicide, theft and cheating. The Penal Code… …   Wikipedia

• Penal transportation — For other uses, see Transportation (disambiguation). Women in England mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792 Transportation or penal transportation is the …   Wikipedia

• labour camp — noun a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor • Syn: ↑labor camp • Hypernyms: ↑camp * * * labour camp noun 1. A penal institution where the inmates are forced to work 2. Temporary accommodation for workers • • • …   Useful english dictionary

• penal — adj. 1 a of or concerning punishment or its infliction (penal laws; a penal sentence; a penal colony). b (of an offence) punishable, esp. by law. 2 extremely severe (penal taxation). Phrases and idioms: penal servitude hist. imprisonment with… …   Useful english dictionary

• Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved) — Infobox ILO convention code= C65 name= Penal Sanctions (Indigenous Workers) Convention, 1939 (shelved) adopt= June 27, 1939 force= July 8, 1948 classify= subject= Indigenous and Tribal Peoples prev= Contracts of Employment (Indigenous Workers)… …   Wikipedia

• penal servitude — N UNCOUNT Penal servitude is the punishment of being sent to prison and forced to do hard physical work. [FORMAL] Syn: hard labour …   English dictionary