Editing Forced labour (section)

===Mandatory services due to social status===
====Corvée====
{{main|Corvée|Socage}}
[[File:Reeve and Serfs.jpg|thumb|Depiction of socage on the royal [[demesne]] (miniature from the [[Queen Mary Psalter]], {{Circa|1310}}).<br>[[British Library]], London]]
Though most closely associated with [[Medieval]] Europe, governments throughout human history have imposed regular short stints of unpaid labour upon lower social classes. These might be annual obligations of a few weeks or something similarly regular that lasted for the labourer's entire working life. As the system developed in the Philippines and elsewhere, the labourer could pay an appropriate fee and be exempted from the obligation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Agoncillo |first=Teodoro A. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29915943 |title=History of the Filipino people |date=1990 |publisher=Garotech Pub |isbn=971-10-2415-2 |edition=8th |location=Quezon City [Philippines] |pages=83 |oclc=29915943}}</ref>

====Vetti-chakiri====
{{main|Veth (India)}}
A form of forced labour in which peasants and members of lower castes were required to work for free existed in India before independence. This form of labour was known by several names, including ''veth'', ''vethi'', {{lang|sa-Latn|vetti-chakiri}} and {{lang|fa-Latn|begar}} .<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shah |first=Ghanshyam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101041666 |title=Social Movements in India : a Review of Literature. |date=2004 |publisher=Sage Publications |isbn=978-81-321-1977-7 |edition=2nd |location=New Delhi |oclc=1101041666}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Menon |first=Amarnath K. |date=December 29, 2007 |title=The red revolt |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20071231-the-red-revolt-734843-2007-12-20 |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref>