Indentured servitude
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indentured-servitude-207-278952
title:
Indentured servitude
text:
Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract, called an "indenture", may be entered voluntarily for purported eventual compensation or debt repayment, or imposed involuntarily as a judicial punishment. The practice has been compared to the similar institution of slavery, although there are differences. Historically, in an apprenticeship, an apprentice worked with no pay for a master tradesman to learn
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Consensual or punitive unpaid labor
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude
date created:
2003-09-25T18:56:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:00:26Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16