peasantry

noun3

1. •
   Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
2. •
   The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.

   • How much low pezantry would then be gleaned / From the true seede of honor? And how much honor, / Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times / To be new vernish’d? — 1596
3. •
   Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.