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Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by madhadron on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:48AM (#25818956)
In Western Europe, serfdom was the exception. It's more of a Russian notion. Commoners in most of feudal Europe had an explicit "right of departure."
Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by jiggawatts on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:49AM (#25820787)
This historian says that despite this theoretical freedom, most peasants were just as trapped: https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...