单词 | rural labourer |
释义 | rural labourer There was plenty of food around but rural labourers had seen a decline in their legal rights. Times, Sunday Times Not just rural labourers, but weavers and miners, watchmakers and stocking-makers were poachers, the village alehouse was the recruiting centre, the local innkeeper and the coachman the distributors. The Times Literary Supplement Provincial statistics on the movement of tens of millions of rural labourers into the country's cities — the biggest migration in history — are notoriously prone to political pressure and manipulation. Times, Sunday Times On the embankment between the upper and the lower road a group of unemployed rural labourers are sleeping in uneasy postures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wages continued to rise, and between the 1340s and the 1380s the purchasing power of rural labourers increased by around 40 percent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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