Robot (Hungary, 1850)

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HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA:
WITH REMARKS ON THEIR CONDITION,
SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL
by John Paget
in two volumes
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard
1850
London: John Murray
1855

   The first citation is from the 1850 edition, but the 1855 edition has illustrations and is easier to read.

VOLUME ONE
Pg. 186 (Pg. 305 in 1855 ed.):
   The system of rent by _robot_ or forced labour,--that is, so many days' labour without any specification of the quantity of work to be performed,--is a direct premium on idleness.
(...)
   Another evil of the robot is the ill-will it begets between the masters and the workmen...

Pg. 325 (1885 ed.):
   ...at work, two hours off, on Robot...