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Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed b
by downrightmike 3y ago
Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867.
- asdff 3y agoToday we just call it wage garnishment. We seem to often gain rights by just moving around the specific parties involve through the transitive property, rather than actually seeing significant change from the status quo.