The enclosure of common land was seeing the eviction of peasants from the fields that lay between them and starvation.
It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
Mr. Shi grew up the son of peasants in China's Sichuan province.
When middlemen say they have delivered so many bags of rice to so many thousands of peasants, there is no way to tell if they are lying.
The landowners do not question the right of landless peasants to a plot of land.
He said the attack, repelled by government soldiers, signalled the growing presence of Hutu rebels in the region as well as the complicity with rebel activity of Hutu peasants, who make up more than 80% of Burundi's population.
It provides social services, as well as spiritual sustenance, for millions of conservative peasants and townspeople in Anatolia, Turkey's heartland.
This problem of landless peasants is likely to grow as more land is set aside for urban and industrial development.
The romantic model being promoted by Time and agri-intellectuals like Michael Pollan hearkens back to European and Tolstoyan notions of small family farms run by generations of happy peasants.
While no serious injuries were reported, some of the local peasants worried that the tissue of the sky itself had ruptured, leaving them dangerously exposed to further celestial attack.
Several years ago, in return for taking in some of Tawa's peasants relocated as part of a poverty-alleviation scheme, it was given rights to the mountainous estate.
Juchitan, a city known for its dominant women, has a tradition of indigenous intellectualism and in 1981 elected the Coalition of Workers, Peasants and Students to its city government.
Because of the failure to price water properly, factory owners and peasants alike use too much of it.
Lacking regular supply lines, the rebels subsist on goats, onions and the occasional bit of salt donated by friendly peasants.
But this is hard to pull off in weak states teeming with peasants in search of somewhere to plant their crops.
It also calls for an increase in central-government handouts to rural areas, to make up for their loss of revenue as a result of reforms intended to reduce peasants' tax burdens.
Haier is perhaps best known for the story of how, in the mid-1990s, they unexpectedly recognized the use of their washing machines by peasants in Sichuan province to make their fruits and vegetables more attractive for the newly emerging free markets, and then developed softer agitators to deliver on that need.
She was a mother (of Laurita), a housewife and a teacher: someone who loved literature and had taught peasants to read in the early years of the revolution.
In the high altiplano, poor peasants depend for much of their water on the slow melting of snow.
Among the 3, 000 delegates of the 2013 National People's Congress, the percentage of blue-collar workers and peasants has risen to 13% from 8% in 2012.
He proposed that the owners give the peasants a small piece of the business by letting them plant African palms on small plots of their land.
Between 1998 and 2000, a senseless war with neighbouring Eritrea cost a fortune and prised many of the strongest hands off hoes and on to rifles. (In Eritrea, the aftermath has been even bleaker: 2.3m people now need food aid, out of a population of only 3m.) Ethiopian peasants are also burdened with taxes on the land they lease from the state, and levies for clinics, schools and roads.
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Many of the residents are immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, from northeastern Brazil, where African-Brazilian farmers and peasants have long struggled with drought, economic discrimination and a lack of jobs.
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For all of his economic brilliance, Mundell, I fear is playing out of his own game, an amateur playing a high-stakes Game of Thrones, and it is the peasants who are going to suffer the consequences when all the scheming goes bad.
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Kazan introduced into cinema the faces and the vibrancy of the unseen American mongrel gallery: Mexican peasants, Italian longshoremen, Appalachian yeomen, black sharecroppers, Anatolian immigrants.
Today we look at these achievements, much as Dark Age peasants looked on the mighty works of the Roman Era, feeling like some golden age has passed when giants walked the Earth.
"The issue is that dumping impoverished peasants on geometrically-plotted patches of virgin non-arable land, without any infrastructure, tillage equipment, venture capital, housing, water supplies, or training will result quite simply in an ecological disaster, " says Professor du Toit.
According to Mr Hughes, Roman nobs thought fishing bucolic and uninteresting, and ranked fishermen alongside shepherds, labourers and peasants, people just above the level of slaves.
Peasants were the pawns in this war of attrition.
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But a decade later, despite financial and technical aid from the World Bank and sympathetic countries, this programme had completely failed due to inefficiency, corruption, resistance from peasants and the rise in the price of imported petroleum.
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