1 You know that capital oppresses the laborer.
2 Seeing the master, the laborer, Vassily, went towards the cart, while Mishka set to work sowing.
3 And so you maintain that the laborer himself is an element to be studied and to regulate the choice of methods in agriculture.
4 It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic, ethnographical.
5 What the laborer wanted was to work as pleasantly as possible, with rests, and above all, carelessly and heedlessly, without thinking.
6 Moreover, he lived in a district town, and he was longing to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town, a drunkard and a thief whom no one would employ as a laborer.
7 In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as a hay-maker, as laborer, as neat-herd on a farm, as a drudge.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 8 Whether it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an industrious man, should have lacked bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 10 Having, through various causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a carter and a laborer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN... 11 Behind it came an old man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 12 The laborer, the harvester, the sailor, the blacksmith, will appear to you in glory like the blessed spirits in paradise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 13 Lastly, among such conditions of life there are few incentives to make the laborer become a better farmer.
14 All they furnish is their labor; the land-owner furnishes land, stock, tools, seed, and house; and at the end of the year the laborer gets from a third to a half of the crop.
15 Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees' wages.