Editing Forced labour (section)

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{{Short description|Work that employs people against their will}}
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[[File:Ivan Vladimirov russian-clergy-on-forced-labor-1919.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Clergy on forced labour, by [[Ivan Vladimirov]] ([[History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (1917–1927)|Soviet Russia]], 1919)]]
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'''Forced labour''', or '''unfree labour''', is any work relation, especially in [[modern history|modern]] or [[Early Modern period|early modern]] history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of [[poverty|destitution]], [[detention (imprisonment)|detention]], or [[violence]], including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.{{NoteTag|[[forced labour under German rule during World War II]] through [[Service du travail obligatoire]] of [[Vichy France]]}}

Unfree labour includes all forms of [[slavery]], [[penal labour]], and the corresponding institutions, such as [[debt bondage|debt slavery]], [[serfdom]], [[corvée]] and [[labor camp|labour camps]].