Abstract
This chapter discusses the concept of forced labor. Forced labor is another form of compulsion by which a government deprives the individual of his freedom of action.Although forced labor as a form of institutionalized servitude may seem a notion of the distant past, there is clear evidence that this phenomenon still persists in a number of countries in the 20th century, despite early initiatives under the aegis of the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization (ILO) to counter forced labor. The first concerted efforts to reduce the use of forced labor resulted from the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and the B and C Mandate Treaties under which the use of forced labor was legal only if it served a public purpose. A similar provision can be found in the Slavery Convention of 1926. Despite this impressive record, new labor regulations adopted on economic and social grounds in certain countries may lead to the exaction of work under the menace of a penalty.
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