landless peasants
Workers without property
Landless peasants are rural agricultural workers who own no farmland of their own.
They typically work as laborers on others' land, often under exploitative conditions.
The term appears in discussions of agrarian reform, feudal systems, and rural poverty: Land reform programs aimed to redistribute acreage to landless peasants.
The phrase emphasizes economic vulnerability—without land, peasants lack both security and autonomy.
- agrarian socialismCollective ownership of farmland
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
- povertySevere lack of resources
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- precariousnessState of uncertain stability
empty bellies · inequality · disenfranchisement · bonded labor · feudalism · day laborer · enclosure movement · grassroots organizing · collectivization · dispossession · subsistence farming · tenant farming · exploitation · dirt poor · sharecropping · hunger · farmhands · crofters
landless peasantslanded gentry
Landowning class living on rents
landowners · freeholders · yeomen · smallholders · homesteaders
landless peasantsfeudal lords
Medieval landowning nobility
aristocracy · nobility · landed gentry · lords · gentry
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Rental property owners
plantation owners · gentleman farmers · absentee landlords · kulaks
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