Peon
The words peon and peonage is derived from the Spanish pe?n. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In its obselete Spanish usage the word denoted a person who traveled by foot rather than on a horse (caballero). In Spanish-speaking countries, especially those in Latin America, where the hacienda system kept labourers from leaving estate, peon has a range of meanings related to unskilled or semi-skilled work or manual labour, whether referring to a low-status wage earner in a variety of rural and urban industries (especially a day labourer or a servant); a peasant; a bullfighter's assistant, or, historically, someone subject to forms of unfree labour.
Horse: :This article discusses ungulate mammals. For other meanings of horse, see Horse (disambiguation).... Hacienda: :This is about a hacienda, a vast ranch. For the Manchester discotheque, see Fac 51 Hacienda. In Spanish, Ministerio de Hacienda means "Ministry of Public Finances".... Work: In physics, work is defined as the integral of dot product of force times infinitesimal translation::: W = int mathbf{F} cdot mathrm{d}mathbf{s}... | ~ Table of Content ~
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