labor camp
noun
1
: a penal colony where forced labor is performed
2
: a camp for migratory laborers
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.
—Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
Parts of the dense, equatorial mainland, as well as the islands that lay off the shore of the nascent capital, Cayenne, would be turned into labor camps and prisons for the most serious criminal offenders in mainland France.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
The satire, as always, could cut more deeply — there’s no reference to censorship of homosexuality or Uyghur labor camps — but The Franchise comes up with some great, goofy tableaus in which tractors beep their way through soundstages.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.
—Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
Parts of the dense, equatorial mainland, as well as the islands that lay off the shore of the nascent capital, Cayenne, would be turned into labor camps and prisons for the most serious criminal offenders in mainland France.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
The satire, as always, could cut more deeply — there’s no reference to censorship of homosexuality or Uyghur labor camps — but The Franchise comes up with some great, goofy tableaus in which tractors beep their way through soundstages.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20camp. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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