During the early years of sheep breeding in Australia, shearing was carried out by shepherds, assigned servants, Ticket of Leave men, and free labourers using blade shears.

It was intended to be the first step in a plan to establish a settlement of free labourers and peasant farmers in what was then a newly-acquired British colony.

He built up a congregation of about 300 Khoekhoen, slaves and free labourers.

"less eligibility" - that the pauper should have to enter a workhouse with conditions worse than those of the poorest 'free' labourer outside of the workhouse.

The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is started, using convict labour, it is completed in 1864, using free labourers.

Narain was the second child, born during the second year of his parents' life as free labourers in Fiji.

Initially, local labourers, free or enslaved, were sought to carry out the construction.

Consequently, most such factories employed free labourers, as well as slaves, who could be laid off in slack periods.

Wool scouring hands went on strike at Kynuna in 1892 and free labourers were summoned to Winton and then onto the station to take over from the work.

Economically, Tiberius' land reforms were continued and broadened, providing for larger allotments so free labourers could be employed.