peasant farmer
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If Naoroji had been a peasant farmer instead of an educated member of the middle class, do you think his criticisms would have been different?
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Left-wing Castillo, a former teacher and peasant farmer raised in a poor family in Peru's rural Andes, came to power last year.
From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2022
Nicolas Ferrand, the proprietor of Domaine des Côtes Rousses, calls himself a paysan vigneron, a peasant farmer and winemaker.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021
“A Hidden Life” tells the story of Franz Jägerstätter, a peasant farmer from the Austrian village of St. Radegund who was imprisoned and executed in 1943 for refusing to fight for the Nazis.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2019
If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
