forced labor

work people are employed in, but against their will
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forced labor

Summary

forced labor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (770 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • forced labor's main regulatory text is recorded as Strafgesetzbuch[2].
  • forced labor is a type of work[3].
  • forced labor is a type of offense against personal freedom[4].
  • forced labor is a type of punishment[5].
  • forced labor is a type of job activity[6].
  • forced labor is a type of suffering[7].
  • forced labor is a type of authoritarianism[8].
  • forced labor's Commons category is recorded as Unfree labour[9].
  • forced labor comprises slavery[10].
  • forced labor comprises corvée[11].
  • forced labor comprises indentured servant[12].
  • forced labor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Forced labour[13].
  • forced labor's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • forced labor's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[15].
  • forced labor's practiced by is recorded as forced laborer[16].
  • forced labor's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[17].
  • forced labor's relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator is recorded as Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals[18].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include work[3], offense against personal freedom[4], punishment[5], job activity[6], suffering[7], and authoritarianism[8].

Use and Application

Components include slavery[10]; corvée[11]; and indentured servant[12], an employment[19].

Why It Matters

forced labor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (770 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → forced-labor, slave-labor
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: slave-labor, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959820|slave labor (#289959820)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → forced-labor, slave-labor
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: forced-labor, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289930923|forced labor (#289930923)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  3. 16w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0312970-nucena-prace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0312970-nucena-prace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Human rights
    Subclass of → work, offense against personal freedom, punishment +3
    Topic's main category → Category:Forced labour
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6977, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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