Corvée
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Corvée is a form of unpaid, unfree labour, which is intermittent in nature and which lasts limited periods of time: typically only a certain number of days' work each year.
Statute labour is a corvée imposed by a state for the purposes of public works.
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See also
- Impressment
- Indenture
- Indigénat for instances of corvée in French colonial Africa
- Mita
- Nuribta (corvée letter to pharaoh)
- Serjeanty
- Socage
- Subbotnik
- Tax farming
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