"Perhaps the strangest example of all workers' revolts was the uprising of the Jewish peasants of the orator Libanius of Antioch in the fourth century A.D.
"Libanius said in effect that his peasants claimed the right to discuss freely with him the conditions of their employment, and he was exceedingly annoyed by such temerity. This is practically the only example in the entire history of ancient societies of a workers' revolt based upon specific claims."
Claude Mossé, The Ancient World of Work
[translated by Janet Lloyd], (1969).
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