Wages continued to rise, and between the 1340s and the 1380s the purchasing power of rural labourers increased by around 40 percent.

I take it you are unfamiliar with the world of the slave, the serf and the rural labourer.

The Irish in the countryside worked as rural labourers, cattle dealers, and shepherds.

To make the situation worse, the rural labourers are subjected to selection by employers, which further reduces the chances of getting a job.

It is probably true that, indeed, 'in this period there is no major occupational group more worthy of compassion than the rural labourer'.

He was educated to elementary level in Dubbo and, from the age of 14, worked as a rural labourer.

In addition to these classes, the population included rural labourers and artisans.

The concerns of the landless rural labourer and the urban proletarian may be fundamentally at odds.

The dark, primitive huts that were once common for rural labourers in Bolivia are fast becoming a thing of the past.

On 1 August 1853, a large body of rural labourers came to Road Town to protest the tax.