I have just been doing some reseach for something totally non aviation related and I came across the term Serfdom:
Serfdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It seems the amount of debt that most young pilots are now in and the way that its handled e.g salary barely enough to cover debt repayments, company enforced debt for type rating etc comes pretty close to some of the principles of serfdom?
Is this really where we have landed ourselves as a profession in 2011?