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forced labour,
also called SLAVE LABOUR, labour performed involuntarily and under duress,
usually by relatively large groups of people. Forced labour differs from slavery
in that it involves not the ownership of one person by another but rather merely
the forced exploitation of that person's labour.
Forced labour has existed in various
forms throughout history, but it was a peculiarly prominent feature of the
totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and the Soviet
Union (especially during the rule of Joseph Stalin), in which it was used
on a vast scale. Under these regimes, persons either suspected of opposition or
considered racially or nationally unfit were summarily arrested and placed under
long or indefinite terms of confinement in concentration camps, remote labour
colonies, or industrial camps and forced to work, usually under harsh
conditions.
The Nazi
Party's rise to power in Germany during the 1930s was accompanied by the
extensive use of concentration camps to confine
classes of persons who were opposed to the regime or who were otherwise
undesirable. The outbreak of World War II created a tremendous demand for labour
in Germany, and the Nazi authorities turned to the concentration-camp population
to augment the labour supply. By the end of 1944 some 2 million prisoners of war
(mostly Russians and Ukrainians) and some 7.5 million civilian men, women, and
children from every German-occupied nation of Europe had been put to work in
German arms factories, chemical plants, mines, farms, and lumber operations.
Although the earlier arrivals in Germany were "volunteers," the vast
majority (from 1941 on) were rounded up by force, transported to Germany in
boxcars, and put to work under appallingly harsh and degrading conditions. A
large percentage of the slave labourers had died from disease, starvation,
overwork, and mistreatment by the time the war ended. Many of those who had
become unfit for further labour because of the harsh conditions were simply
exterminated.
Forced labour was also extensively used
by the early Soviet government. In 1923 the Soviet secret police established a
concentration camp on Solovetski Island in the White Sea in which political
prisoners were first used extensively for forced labour. The secret police
established many corrective labour camps in the northern Russian S.F.S.R. and in
Siberia beginning in the late 1920s; and, as the number of those arrested in
Stalin's great purges of the 1930s grew into the millions, a network of hundreds
of labour camps grew up throughout the Soviet Union. The Soviet
concentration-camp system became a gigantic organization for the exploitation of
inmates through work. The inmates of the camps in the northern Soviet Union were
used primarily in lumbering and fishing industries and on large-scale
public-works projects, such as the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Sea
canal. The inmates of the Siberian camps were used in lumbering and mining. The
inmates of the Soviet labour camps were inadequately clothed for the severe
Russian climate, and the standard rations of bread and soup were scarcely
adequate to maintain life. It is variously estimated that from 5 million to 10
million persons died in the Soviet labour camp system from 1924 to 1953. (See
Gulag .) The use of forced labour greatly
diminished after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 and the subsequent
de-Stalinization of Soviet society. Forced labour was also used by Japan during
World War II, and by the communist government of China at times from the 1950s
to the 1970s. The Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) of Cambodia made a particularly
widespread and brutal use of forced labour. (see also Gulag)
In 1957 the International
Labour Organisation adopted a resolution that condemned the use of forced
labour throughout the world. The convention was ratified by 91 member nations.
Forced labour continues to be used by a few authoritarian and totalitarian
governments on a relatively small scale.
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