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 pretend of punishment. Labor camps have numerous common aspects with slavery as alive as with prisons particularly prison farms. Conditions at labor camps restyle 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 mark 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 near others served as backbones of industry and agriculture for the benefit of the state, particularly in times of war.[]

Precursors

Early-modern states could exploit condemned dissidents and those of suspect political or religious ideology by combining prison and useful work in manning their galleys. This became the sentence of numerous Christian captives in the Ottoman Empire and of Calvinists Huguenots in pre-Revolutionary France.