Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 20 | 147 | Supposedly these were free work chains, "free" in the sense of not utilizing slaves. |
| 20 | 148 | Goreans generally do not employ slaves for such labors as road construction, siege works, raising walls, and so on. |
| 20 | 149 | Similarly they generally would not use them for the construction of temples and public buildings. |
| 20 | 150 | Most such work is generally done by the free labor of a given community, though this "free labor" may, upon occasion, particularly in emergencies, be "levied," the laborers then contributing their labor as a form of special tax, or, if you like, as having been "conscripted" or "drafted," rather as if for military service. |
| 20 | 151 | Usually, of course, the free labor is paid, and with more than provisions and shelter, either from public or private funds. |
| 20 | 152 | Any city in which free laborers tended to be systematically robbed of their employments in virtue of embonded competition would doubtless be inviting discontent, and perhaps, eventually, revolution. |
| 20 | 153 | Besides, the free laborers share a Home Stone with the aristocracies of these cities, the upper castes, the higher families, the richer families, and so on. |
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Supposedly these were free work chains, "free" in the sense of not utilizing slaves.
Goreans generally do not employ slaves for such labors as road construction, siege works, raising walls, and so on.
Similarly they generally would not use them for the construction of temples and public buildings.
Most such work is generally done by the free labor of a given community, though this "free labor" may, upon occasion, particularly in emergencies, be "levied," the laborers then contributing their labor as a form of special tax, or, if you like, as having been "conscripted" or "drafted," rather as if for military service.
Usually, of course, the free labor is paid, and with more than provisions and shelter, either from public or private funds.
Any city in which free laborers tended to be systematically robbed of their employments in virtue of embonded competition would doubtless be inviting discontent, and perhaps, eventually, revolution.
Besides, the free laborers share a Home Stone with the aristocracies of these cities, the upper castes, the higher families, the richer families, and so on.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter )