Sentence examples for statute labour from inspiring English sources

Statute labour, unpaid work on public projects that is required by law.

(The term corvée, meaning contribution, is now often used synonymously with statute labour).

A group of Saxon nobles and prelates and the free peasantry of Eastphalia, who had borne the brunt of statute labour in the building of the royal strongholds, revolted against the regime of Henry's Frankish and Swabian officials.

Scholars have gleefully dissected India's 51 central and 170 state labour statutes, some of which pre-date independence, to demonstrate how they make it hard for firms with more than a handful of staff to fire people and allow disputes to become legal endurance tests.

Perhaps the best-known piece of legislation was the Statute of Labourers of 1351, which addressed the labour shortage problem caused by the Black Death.

Probably the main grievance of the agricultural labourers and urban working classes was the Statute of Labourers (1351), which attempted to fix maximum wages during the labour shortage following the Black Death.

In 1763 La Chalotais led his Parlement in challenging the government's right to impose a corvée (statute of forced labour for public works) on Brittany.

Such a land value tax eventually made it onto the statute books in Labour chancellor Philip Snowden's 1931 budget, but was never implemented because the social fallout from the great depression demanded a more immediate political response.

The Statute of Labourers (1351) was a law enacted during the first parliament of Edward III, to make labour laws and their intended enforcement more precise and detailed, and also to allow the government to control wages.

I can assure you that Conservative votes will help these measures on to the statute books – even if Labour members try to stop them".

Land value taxation (LVT) did eventually make it onto the statute books thanks to Labour chancellor Philip Snowden's 1931 budget, only to be overtaken by events, as a run on the Bank of England wrought havoc on the economy and led, in August 1931, to the establishment of Ramsey MacDonald's national government.