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Imperial China had a system of conscripting labour from the public, equated to the Western corvée system by many historians. Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor, and following dynasties imposed it for public works like the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, and the system of national roads and highways. However, as the imposition was exorbitant and ...
In the Inca Empire, workers were subject to a Mit'a in lieu of taxes which they paid by working for the government, a form of corvée labor. [21] Each ayllu, or extended family, would decide which family member to send to do the work. It is debated whether this system of forced labor counts as slavery. [citation needed]
Even when labor was forced as a punishment, it was considered beneficial because it could provoke penitence, balance moral scales, or discourage others from committing crimes. Furthermore, prison officials assumed there was a limit to how much anyone else should benefit from the labor of an incarcerated person. In contrast, Lynds (agent and ...
The Spanish conquistadors also used the same labor system to supply the workforce they needed for the silver mines, which was the basis of their economy in the colonial period. Under the leadership of Viceroy Francisco de Toledo, who was dispatched to Peru in 1569, the mit'a system greatly expanded as Toledo sought to increase silver outputs ...
The system was extremely profitable and ABIR made a turnover of over 100 per cent on its initial stake in a single year. [20] The King made 70 million Belgian francs' profit from the system between 1896 and 1905. [17] The Free State's concession system was soon copied by other colonial regimes, notably those in the neighbouring French Congo. [21]
The Paik system was a type of corvee labour system on which the economy of the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam depended. In this system, adult and able males, called paiks were obligated to render service to the state and form its militia in return for a piece of land for cultivation owned by the kingdom—believed to be a legacy the Ahoms brought with them from South-Eastern Asia in 1228. [1]
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