#peasants — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #peasants, aggregated by home.social.
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I've been reading these blog posts about how peasants lived and this is particularly interesting about the myth that modern day humans worked more than medieval peasant farmers:
"The origin point for nearly all of those “you work harder than a medieval peasant” memes and articles is Juliet Schor’s The Overworked American (1993). The argument has been debunked quite a few times, so I won’t belabor the point here. Schor bases her estimates of medieval working hours on a 1935 article by Nora Kenyon, and an unpublished article by Gregory Clark, and in both cases ignores the authors’ careful efforts to distinguish between total days worked and instead just cherry-picks the lowest number, even as the authors caution that those numbers likely don’t represent someone’s total employment."
https://acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ivb-working-days/
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Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"
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Don't worry, we're not far off from "It's God's Will(tm) that they're the ruling class and we're the peasants"
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Trickle down peasantry will work someday, promise!
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2017257/trickle-down-peasantry-will-work-someday-promise
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Trickle down peasantry will work someday, promise!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2017246/trickle-down-peasantry-will-work-someday-promise
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The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)
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The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)
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The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Netherlands, ~1566 AD)
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Serfs OWNED and TRADED like PROPERTY 😊
https://piefed.social/c/mop/p/1917589/serfs-owned-and-traded-like-property
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Serfs OWNED and TRADED like PROPERTY 😊
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1917586/serfs-owned-and-traded-like-property
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Christ save us from this Satan-spawned horror!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1916562/christ-save-us-from-this-satan-spawned-horror
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[screaming at God intensifies]
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1914445/screaming-at-god-intensifies
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#Aristocrats have to realize their precarious position because we can exist (nay, thrive) without them, but they are #peasants (like us) without us. We aren’t afraid of #poverty and #suffering. They’ve never known any of that, so it terrifies them. They never stop worrying about us, subconsciously. Hence, the endless #legislation against us, and against our interests (living wage, #health care, #retirement #security). And that’s where police are needed: to protect the the #wealth of a small number of #aristocrats from the rest of the #hungry #world.
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"YOOOOO LET'S PLUNDER SOME PEASANTS" - Some Peasant
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1864512/yooooo-let-s-plunder-some-peasants-some-peasant
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"Meet the old boss, same as the old boss"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1864385/meet-the-old-boss-same-as-the-old-boss
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During the #Spanish #revolution and the ensuing civil war, Spanish #workers and #peasants engaged in anti-clerical violence against the #Church that spent centuries raping, molesting, murdering, beating, abusing, and oppressing them.
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🇺🇳 UN Working Group on #Peasants & UN Special Rapporteur on #Food urge that #BindingResponsibility be imposed on agribusiness companies to safeguard #PeasantsRights & global #FoodSecurity
#UNDROP #RightToFood #StopTNCimpunity #PeasantsRightsNow #Right2Food #16oct2025 #WorldFoodDay
@UN_WGPeasants @CarlosDuarte0011 @DefendingUNDROP @viacampesina_en @transnationalinstitute @liguedroitshumains @LDH_Fr @fianbelgium
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For the first time since we’ve been here - 14 years - we have lights in kitchen and bathroom! Do you think this electric thing will catch on? #peasants
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🏴 **Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits**
"_By comparison – as our new paper shows – peasants on the estate of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave from working on the lord’s lands if they were sick. Meanwhile widows were granted leave upon the death of their husbands and workers enjoyed plenty of religious feast days and festivals every year._"
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Peasants #England
#Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medievalplowingwoodcut.jpg.
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🏴 **Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits**
"_By comparison – as our new paper shows – peasants on the estate of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave from working on the lord’s lands if they were sick. Meanwhile widows were granted leave upon the death of their husbands and workers enjoyed plenty of religious feast days and festivals every year._"
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Peasants #England
#Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medievalplowingwoodcut.jpg