Peasantry

[Sonia]

From French paysannerie, meaning place of the country dwellers.
The class consisting of [peasants] and serfs ([country people], mostly farm workers) in an agricultural society, in which peasants are the most common type of people (can be anywhere from fifty to ninety-five percent of the people).
[Peasants] are usually poor and live in villages and work [farmland] which practically belongs to them but is owned by lords.

[Merna]

Smallholders and agricultural laborers of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries)