serfs

We are all aware of the new class of digital serfs slaving away for little or no pay.

The New Serfs: If current trends continue, the fastest growing class will be the permanently property-less.

Colleges gain another windfall by employing “adjuncts,” the serfs of the academic world, who teach for about $3,700 per course.

Marcy Wheeler from FireDogLake described it as “an attempt to turn the middle class into serfs to the health-care industry.”

An imperial ukase ordered that all the serfs in certain of the Russian states, between the ages of 30 and 35, should be enrolled.

The aspect of the serfs, just returned from the fields, was no less wretched than that of their hovels.

Yes, notwithstanding you could have chosen from the serfs of the seigniory a companion who would not have been deformed.

But the artisan serfs, instead of returning every evening to their respective villages, no longer left the castle.

There were then but two classes—the common people, serfs, peasants and bourgeois or townsmen; and nobles, knights and seigneurs.