Serfdom

It is an epic saga of Judah Ben-Hur, the Jewish prince banished to Roman serfdom who after many vicissitudes returns to his people and is converted to Christianity.

Big platforms want us angry and full of hate, Varoufakis argues, because it increases our cloud serfdom.

In 1789, when the world lived in serfdom, slavery, colonialism or hereditary monarchy, French revolutionaries had dared to speak of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Reagan was comfortable with ideas, and even the prof admits that he had read Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom.

Which brings me nicely on to some advice for Mrs von der leyen and her meeting with Alexander Johnson erstwhile U-Serfdom Prime Monster.

Her censorship regime was relatively relaxed and she regarded the slave-like serfdom of Russia’s 10 million peasants as morally undesirable.

In China, economic development has made that relationship one of Gucci serfdom.

Feudal Serfdom, that was a Ventures album, wasn’t it?

The “gig economy” for many—for all at the start, and for all but the most talented, diligent, or lucky it remains so—is a form of digital serfdom.

Tibet was characterized by a form of institutionalized inequality that can be called serfdom: an ancient form of slavery preceding the development of the feudal system.

After the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the use of the Polish language noticeably increased in eastern Lithuania and western Belarus.

Alberobello was feud of the Acquaviva of Aragon until May 27, 1797, when King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon received Alberobello and issued a decree that elevated the small village to a royal city, freeing them from feudal serfdom.

Although serfdom was abolished in 1861, it was done on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries.

Although the Russian Empire would play a leading political role as late as 1848, its retention of serfdom precluded economic progress of any significant degree.

An officer of the Zaporozhian Cossacks in 1720 Cossack numbers expanded when the warriors were joined by peasants escaping serfdom in Russia and dependence in the Commonwealth.

Characteristics Economics Gustave Boulanger 's painting The Slave Market Economists have attempted to model the circumstances under which slavery (and variants such as serfdom ) appear and disappear.

Children of serfs were born into serfdom and worked the same land their parents had.

Collectivization brought social change on a scale not seen since the abolition of serfdom in 1861 and alienation from control of the land and its produce.

Conrad's fiercely patriotic father belonged to the "Red" political faction, whose goal was to re-establish the pre-partition boundaries of Poland, but which also advocated land reform and the abolition of serfdom.

F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Routledge, 2001), p. 188. In the latter half of the twentieth-century Gladstone's economic policies came to be admired by Thatcherite Conservatives.