3-697: The Northwestern Youth Labor Camp was a Chinese labor camp for politically suspect youth established during the Chinese Civil War by order of Kuomintang Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 1 February 1940. Administered by military training units under General Jiang Jianren , the labor camp held young activists and students accused of supporting the Chinese Communist Party , including more than 300 students from high schools and colleges . They were subjected to biweekly indoctrination in anti-communist ideology. The operations of
6-532: A form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms ). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators. Convention no. 105 of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), adopted internationally on 27 June 1957, intended to abolish camps of forced labor. In the 20th century, a new category of labor camps developed for
9-685: The Northwestern Youth Labor Camp were steadily expanded until 1944, when it was reorganized into the Northwestern Branch of the Youth Corps Training Center. This article related to the history of China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Labor camp A labor camp (or labour camp , see spelling differences ) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as
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