peonage

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

peonage

Wikipedia

From peon +‎ -age.

peonage (plural peonages)

The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 217:
  But there was work to be done down in the Salinas Valley where César Chávez was organizing the grape pickers and lettuce workers out of their state of un-unionized peonage.
- 2014, Michael Nava, The City of Palaces, Terrace Books, page 191:
  "It wasn't just the crowds," Luis said softly. "I saw with my own eyes that Díaz's México is a Potemkin village, Miguel. The México profundo where the poor are so hungry they eat grass and bark. I met Indians whose land is being devoured by Díaz's cronies, entire towns swallowed up, and the people reduced to peonage. I talked to Mexican railroad workers who are paid a fraction of what the American owners pay their own countrymen for the same work."

the state of being a peon