They found workers living in what a California labor official described as “economic slavery.”
他们发现工人生活在加州劳工官员所说的“经济奴隶制”中。
英语百科
Wage slavery
Wage slavery refers to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. It is a pejorative term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person.