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What (who) is labour camp - definition

DETENTION FACILITY WHERE INMATES ARE FORCED TO ENGAGE IN PENAL LABOR AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT
Forced labor camp; Labour camp; Labor camps; Labor colony; Labor colonies; Labour camps; Labor-camp; Forced labour camp; Forced-labour camps; Forced labour camps; Correctional-labor camps; Correctional labor camps; Labour colony; Labour colonies; Slave labour camp; Forced-labor camp; Penal camp; Forced-labour camp
  • Registration of [[Jew]]s by Nazis for forced labor, 1941
  • [[Polish Jew]]s are lined up by German soldiers to do forced labour, September 1939, [[Nazi-occupied Poland]]
  • The [[White Sea–Baltic Canal]] opened on 2 August 1933 was the first major industrial project constructed in the [[Soviet Union]] using only [[forced labor]].
  • A painter's impression of a convict ploughing team breaking up new ground at a farm in [[Port Arthur, Tasmania]] in the early 20th century

labour camp         
¦ noun a prison camp with a regime of hard labour.
labour camp         
(labour camps)
Note: in AM, use 'labor camp'
A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
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Labor camp         
A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms).

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Labor camp

A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators. Convention no. 105 of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), adopted internationally on 27 June 1957, abolished camps of forced labor.

In the 20th century, a new category of labor camps developed for the imprisonment of millions of people who were not criminals per se, but political opponents (real or imagined) and various so-called undesirables under communist and fascist regimes. Some of those camps were dubbed "reeducation facilities" for political coercion, but most others served as backbones of industry and agriculture for the benefit of the state, especially in times of war.

Examples of use of labour camp
1. Two Tibetans were killed and 32 detained, interrogated and then sent to a labour camp 150 miles from Lhasa.
2. Chinese diplomats were tight–lipped over the worker‘ strike, which is taking place in a labour camp close to a military site outside the capital city Doha.
3. Asghar Khan/Gulf News Some of the workers who protested on Shaikh Zayed Road on Monday, at their labour camp yesterday.
4. "The fire started at the three warehouses, then it spread to the neighbouring labour camp," said Colonel Gareeb Shabaan, Director General of Sharjah Civil Defence.
5. Arshad Ali/Gulf News Workers who say they have not been paid for five months share a meal of dates at their labour camp outside Ajman.