Sentences with phrase «peasant economy»

I see people consuming less rubbish than today, and in modest size homes, but still a high technology society of reasonable consumption levels as opposed to a peasant economy.

In the peasant economy, market transactions or, if you will, economic relations are socially imbedded.

It is evident in his irresponsible treatment of affairs of state: his public corvee of Israel's free men; his extravagant court supported at the expense of the nation; his administrative division of the land in disregard of traditional tribal bounds; and his whole ingrown life in a court that defied the realities of Israel's basic peasant economy and spent its days in the grand style, with feasting, royal processions, and dilettante scholarship in a setting of magnificent architecture, erected by Israel's peasants, and with women enough for all and to spare.

Not exact matches

Indeed it is as unimaginable for many of us to perceive the world without our industrial economies and nation states at the nexus as it must have been for medieval peasants to contemplate a world without the Church of Rome.

Second, I believe that, despite radical change in the economy, many of the Communist leaders retain some of Marx's concern for workers, and in China's case, for peasants.

Governments are pushed to this by the operation of the economy with increasing costs of production, losses of peasant farmers and local companies, with dumping of subsidized foreign goods into their liberalized market.

If a theology of work or paid employment can not be directly inferred from Jesus» casual observations on the economy of a peasant society, where can we turn for assistance?

There was a long - established system of rights and proprietorship; it was a society which was a large step on from subsistence economy, through trade, banking and regular communications, This stability needed to be called provisional because of the bitter resentment of property and monopoly rights felt from time to time by apprentices, journeymen, the generally less privileged, and by the peasants throughout the countryside.

The markets connected people in even the smallest peasant villages with the larger informal Aztec economy of central Mexico.

Last Train Home Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: Jan. 23 - 24 Why: It's an annual tradition created by accelerated modernization, an expanding economy and the world's largest populace: Each year, 130 million Chinese peasants, displaced from their villages to work in urban factories, crowd train stations to return home for the New Year.

However, indigenous and peasant organizations called it unconstitutional, stating that it would destroy their agricultural economy, threaten traditional systems of land tenure and drive thousands to immigrate to city slums in search of work.

The Ming emperors demonstrated how to stifle an economy by forbidding, among other things, all trade and travel without government permission, and by requiring peasants to grow for their own consumption and not for market.