She gave Hughie his choice between sleeping in Jamie's corner among the lasts or Occupying the pigsty.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
Even in those agricultural countries where this result is promoted by a land system favouring peasant properties, the result is largely due to the fact that Occupying ownership is itself the best condition for high production; and if we compare the principal modern industrial nations, we shall find labour enjoying the best real remuneration in those where the rate of production is highest, where employers are most competent, machinery most perfected, and labour itself personally most efficient.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Then there is the exactly opposite principle of Mr. A. R. Wallace and his friends, who are so much in love with both individual ownership and individual occupation that their whole aim is to compel us all by law to become Occupying owners of land, whether we have any mind to be so or no.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae