Labor service
Labor service stands for:
- Voluntary service , an institutionalized form of voluntary work
- Forced labor , forced obligation to work
Labor service also stands for the respective organizational forms:
- Voluntary Labor Service , a publicly funded employment program in the Weimar Republic
- Voluntary Labor Service (Austria) , from 1936 State Labor Service , a measure to combat youth unemployment in the Austrian First Republic and in the authoritarian corporate state
- Reich Labor Service (RAD), a compulsory work performance of young people in the National Socialist German Reich
- Service for Germany , a voluntary barracked labor service introduced in the GDR in 1952
