Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
indentured worker
Spanish translation:
trabajador con contrato de cumplimiento forzoso
English term
indentured worker
I know it means that many people who were indentured laborers, as an example those who came to work to America in colonial times; they paid their ship fare by going into such a contract. There is always the connotation of "almost being a slave"
Entonces en español nunca lo escuché, será un trabajador por contrato forzado, un trabajador obligado, o ...
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Proposed translations
MA in Translation. Native speaker @USA
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Latin American, US, Argentine)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish, and 1 more.
trabajador con contrato de cumplimiento forzoso
"Este tipo de trabajo con contrato de cumplimiento forzoso no es otra cosa que una modalidad de esclavitud."
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Mexico
Confianza, certeza, creatividad.
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Mexican)
Works in: English to Spanish, Italian to Spanish, French to Spanish, and 6 more.
empleado a trabajos forzados
Spain
Ciencias sociales y mucho más
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain)
Works in: French to Spanish, English to Spanish, Portuguese to Spanish, and 1 more.
trabajador en condiciones de servidumbre
Te doy esta opción un poco larga porque encaja muy bien con la idea: es como si fuera servidumbre (no esclavitud, ojo, no hay propiedad sobre la persona) pero por contrato. Pago mínimo normalmente en especie, ciertas restricciones de libertad individual etc. La expresión, muy amplia, serviría para todo contexto.
En wikipedia lo he visto como "trabajador no abonado" (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabajador_no_abonado), pero psé...
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Robert Carter
: Quizá la mejor opción.
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Mariana Passo
: Es una buena traducción.
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