labor camp
noun
1
: a penal colony where forced labor is performed
2
: a camp for migratory laborers
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Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.
—Paul Slovak
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Every day, the MLA team crisscrosses west Michigan in search of labor camps.
—David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.
—Paul Slovak
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Every day, the MLA team crisscrosses west Michigan in search of labor camps.
—David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20camp. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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