Comment Comment by throw0101c > Your definition doesn't work.It is a recognized idiom in many English dialects:> If people work very hard for long hours for very little money, you can refer to it as slave labor.* https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slave-l...> very hard work for which people are paid very little* https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slave-la...> (informal) work that is very hard and very badly paid* https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ...See also "working in the salt mines" where people do not literally take sodium chloride out of the ground.* https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/back+to+the+salt+mines parent throw0101c 4 days ago
It is a recognized idiom in many English dialects:
> If people work very hard for long hours for very little money, you can refer to it as slave labor.
* https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slave-l...
> very hard work for which people are paid very little
* https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slave-la...
> (informal) work that is very hard and very badly paid
* https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/americ...
See also "working in the salt mines" where people do not literally take sodium chloride out of the ground.
* https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/back+to+the+salt+mines