Sentences with phrase «feudal landlord»

An aging feudal landlord's household staff, the villagers who depend on his favor, and a network of relations near and far who have sought their fortune in the cities confront the advantages and constraints of station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change.

This was true to some extent even for the poor within the limits set by feudal landlords and slave owners.

They may see themselves as custodians of the club as the Liverpool owners described themselves but they are, in effect, feudal landlords except the words they use are more soothing and meant to make them sound better.

Not exact matches

Neoliberal evangelists of this revival of feudal privilege argued that economies don't need a government — unless, of course, the financial sector controls it, as landlords did in feudal Europe.

But an almost feudal system of land management now exists, in which bankers and landlords can take from renters and people with mortgages ever larger slices of their salaries by the manufacture of scarcity.