Sublime

Pour Castel, le salariat ne naît pas d’un contrat libre, mais de la corvée, forme de travail forcé que le tenancier doit à l’exploitation seigneuriale dont il dépend. Elle se distingue du salariat parce qu’elle n’est pas rétribuée et parce qu’elle marque une dépendance personnelle, comme dans l’esclavage et le servage. Quand la main-d’œuvre servile

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Far more numerous were the yeomen. Their land was often rented from those above them, though many owned portions as well, and they farmed it all themselves. In terms of pure wealth, some were richer than some of the gentlemen, but theirs was a life of active involvement on the land. Most of their servants were not of a personal or domestic nature,

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Later came new progress. He no longer worked for the master, but for himself. On condition of an annual rent, which at first was perhaps variable, but which afterwards became fixed, he had the benefit of the harvest. He thus found some recompense for his labor, and his life was at the same time freer and more independent. “The chiefs of families,”

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