'bonded labor' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of unpaid or underpaid labor that an individual or family must do as a means of repaying a debt, usually to a lender. For example, "The farming family had been trapped in a cycle of bonded labor for generations."
Although the report, "Stopping Forced Labor," did not quantify the problem, it said compelled work -- slavery, debt bondage or bonded labor -- was found worldwide.
This is what bonded labor looks like in Pakistan.
But what is occurring now is closer to the practice of bonded labor.
Traditional forms of forced labor, like slavery and bonded labor, also ensnare vast numbers of people.
A job in a factory brought freedom from centuries of feudal servitude and bonded labor.
We don't send debtors to penal colonies or put them in bonded labor.
Fellows have saved millions of acres of rain forest, brought low-cost electricity to isolated rural villages, released thousands of children from bonded slave labor, created programs for more effective teaching of mathematics and launched a score of human rights initiatives.
The first solution to the inadequate colonial workforce was found in Irish bond labor, and so Irishmen worked the plantations until the English desired more labor to maximize the gains of more land.
The Chennai team now has fiftysix bonded-labor cases active in the Indian courts, and it has won twelve convictions, though some of the sentences have been shockingly light.
For instance, to overcome family economic insecurity, some families may give their child over to bonded child labor while others may organize workers' collectives to secure a loan to start a small business.
The bond of labor in a shared project is intense.
