7 sentences with “labourers”

They were seasonal labourers, rented to wealthy landowners, or owned farms but were perpetually threatened by wealthy predators.

Far more common, however, were labourers or artisans of all kinds, who made things and then sold them on behalf of their masters.

Regional administrators did the important work of recruiting labourers, collecting taxes and making sure that agriculture was on track.

A significant percentage of the population of the cities were "paupers", the destitute and homeless who tried to survive as labourers or sought charity from the Church.

For a long time, historians thought they were built by slaves, but it now seems very likely that they were built by free labourers employed by the king and paid by royal agents.

Many peasant families who had once owned small plots of their own had to sell them to wealthy nobles and became landless agricultural labourers, one step removed from the truly destitute who fled to the cities in search of work or church charity.

While the large British population of landless rural labourers and poor peasants had no choice but to seek work in the factories, most French peasants were independent farmers who had no interest in going to the cities to work in miserable conditions.