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That's funny, because I thought it sounded a little too romantic in the other direction. Perhaps Australian family farms aren't old enough to count as peasantry
by strken 3y ago
That's funny, because I thought it sounded a little too romantic in the other direction. Perhaps Australian family farms aren't old enough to count as peasantry, but from what I remember the men and women who worked then spent less time complaining about being enpeasanted and having big hands, and more about perfidious farm gate prices and not being able to take a holiday in three years because there wasn't anyone they trusted to run a dairy.
- Ekaros 3y agoFamily farms by definition are not peasantry. They have the good life, they are the exploiters. Now the workers that would be forced to run the dairy would be the peasants.
- biorach 3y agoDepends where you are. In much of Europe, especially in the south, the small farm families would be regarded as "payasan", or equivalent