peasant

A farm worker, usually poor. The most common type of person in a pre-industrial society (usually 66 to 95%), and of the lowest class. Peasants were/are typically small farmers, tenant farmers, sharecroppers, farmhands, and laborers and invariably rural, living in villages and tending land which is practically theirs but officially belongs to the wealthy. Usually an insult for dirty, uncouth, unsophisticated people of low status. Peasants stereotypically have virtually no education, nonexistent hygiene, are conservative, and have almost no rights, despite that their work requires careful planning and that they are not averse to protests.