Modern slavery

/mˈɒdən slˈeɪvəɹɪ/

/mˈɑːdɚn slˈeɪvɚɹi/

Modern slavery

a modern form of slavery that involves using threats or violence to force people to work and preventing them from escaping

Examples

1. Other socialist-leaning countries like China and Cuba suffer from terrible human rights abuses, like modern slavery and censorship.

2. Both companies have faced accusations of unethical labor practices, sweatshop conditions, and questionable supply chains, AKA modern slavery.

3. And I didn't know that modern slavery existed in the numbers that it did.

4. So just modern slavery is going to go from the beginning of the 18 or 19th century and now it's getting worse.