"convict" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By 1910 the industry faded due to problems invoked by labor unions and convict labor.
- In these confrontations, convict labor surely took on a somewhat exaggerated importance to free workers, argues Edward L. Ayers.
- The Act also removed from the Committee's jurisdiction proposals affecting executive branch reorganization, convict labor, and the American National Red Cross.
- The Knights' primary demand was for an eight-hour day; they also called for legislation to end child and convict labor, as well as a graduated income tax.
- He insists, though, that the United States does not object to other countries' paying their workers less than Americans but only to practices like child and convict labor.
- And I have never felt that convict labor was right.
- Neither did convict labor, but what the hell.
- ASPC-Lewis is a modern, medium security prison built by both commercial and convict labor.
- In 1841 British military authorities, eager to remove soldiers from the city's temptations, began construction of barracks to be named after Queen Victoria, again using mostly convict labor.
- Federal law prohibits the importing of any goods produced in a foreign country by "forced labor" or "convict labor."
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