Corvée | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Corvée


00:01:27 1 Etymology
00:03:24 2 History
00:03:33 2.1 Austria, Holy Roman Empire, and Germany
00:05:17 2.2 Egypt
00:07:29 2.3 France
00:08:30 2.4 Haiti
00:09:27 2.5 Imperial China
00:10:03 2.6 Japan
00:10:28 2.7 Madagascar
00:12:46 2.8 The Philippines
00:13:36 2.9 Portugal, African colonies
00:14:43 2.10 Romanian principalities
00:16:13 2.11 Russian Empire
00:17:14 2.12 Poland
00:17:36 2.13 United States
00:18:28 3 Modern instances
00:20:07 4 Gallery



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SUMMARY
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Corvée (French: [kɔʁve] (listen)) 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. As such it represents a form of levy (taxation). Unlike other forms of levy, such as a tithe, a corvée does not require the population to have land, crops or cash. It was thus favored in historical economies in which barter was more common than cash transactions or circulating money was in short supply.
The obligation for tenant farmers to perform corvée work for landlords on private landed estates was widespread throughout history before the Industrial Revolution. The term is most typically used in reference to medieval and early modern Europe, where work was often expected by a feudal landowner (of their vassals), or by a monarch of their subjects. However, the application of the term is not limited to that time or place; corvée has existed in modern and ancient Egypt, ancient Israel under Solomon, ancient Rome, China and Japan, everywhere in continental Europe, the Incan civilization, Haiti under Henri Christophe and under American occupation (1915–1934), and Portugal's African colonies until the mid-1960s. Forms of statute labour officially existed until the early twentieth century in Canada and the United States.