possessionnye krest'yane (English spelling)

...Urban retailers were called meshyanins and were distinguished from them, but many of the lower classes in cities, such as coachmen, men and maids, were migrant peasants. Russian factory industry also relied heavily on peasant labor, and in the 18th century it was characterized by the "possessionnye krest'yane" (peasants who were bought by factories), the "pripisnye krest'yane" (peasants who were incorporated into factories), and the serf labor of landlord factories, the former of which was used in large quantities in the metallurgical industry in the Urals developed by Peter the Great. In the first half of the 19th century, mainly in the new cotton industry, the "vol'nonayomnye rabochie" (free laborers), most of whom were migrant peasants working on state and private land, formed the main factory workforce (47% in 1804, 87% in 1860), and even in the second half of the century the majority of workers in industry and construction were migrant peasants.

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…都市小売商などはメシチャニーンと呼ばれてこれと区別されたが，御者，下男，下女など都市の下層の多くは出稼農民であった。　ロシアの工場制工業も農民労働に大きく依存し，18世紀には工場に買われた〈占有農民possessionnye krest’yane〉，工場に編入された〈編入農民pripisnye krest’yane〉，さらに地主工場の農奴労働が特色をなし，ピョートル1世の開発したウラルの冶金業でも前者が大量に使用された。19世紀前半には新たな綿工業を中心に，大半が国有地･私有地の出稼農民からなる〈自由雇用労働者vol’nonayomnye rabochie〉が工場労働力の主力(1804年に47％，60年に87％)をなし，世紀後半にも工業･建設の労働者の大半は出稼農民であった。…

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