Many observers view slavery and freedom as polar opposites, but both slave and free wage labor systems rely on compulsion. Slave systems depend ultimately on physical coercion to force slaves to work for masters, although cultural, ideological, and...

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In response to the article, "Forced overtime leaves BMHI workers fuming" (BDN, Aug. 14), by Michael O'D. Moore: For every five workers who use their time off to staff an informational picket at Bangor Mental Health Institute, many more of us cheer them on....

THREE FLORIDA CITRUS CONTRACTORs received lengthy prison sentences in November for conspiring to hold workers in involuntary servitude, harboring undocumented workers, interfering with interstate commerce by extortion, and using firearms during the course of a violent felony. United States District Judge K....

Two Indonesian housekeepers who say they were abused and forced into servitude by a millionaire couple concocted many of the stories they told federal prosecutors, a defense attorney said Tuesday."Nobody saw anything except what Enung and Samirah wanted them to see," attorney Stephen Scaring said...

An Indonesian woman came face-to-face Thursday with a millionaire couple accused of keeping her and another woman as virtual slaves, subjecting them to physical and psychological abuse.The 51-year-old woman, identified only as Samirah, testified for the prosecution in the trial of Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51,...