how did the condition of secured labourers become insecure
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how did the condition of secured labourers become insecure
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(i) Earlier, it was common for labourers to live with landowners. They were at the master's table and helped their master through the year, doing a variety of jobs.
(ii) By 1800, this practice began to disappear. Labourers were being paid wages and employed only during harvest times.
(iii) As landowners tried to increase their profits, they cut the amount they had to spend on other workmen. Workers became insecure, employment uncertain and income unstable. For a very large part of the year, the poor had no work.