Nobility & Peasants:

• Labor shortage resulted in higher wages
• Population decline: low demand for farm produce/falling prices
• English Parliament passed Statute of Laborers (1351):
  Limited wages to pre-plague levels/forbade peasant mobility
  
• Increase in government taxation

Peasant Revolts:

• France: Angered by soldiers/mercenaries in 100 Years' War
  Aristocratic contempt for peasantry: mutual massacres
• Peasants had high expectations due to new economic situation
  Poll tax (flat charge) levied against adults
  Peasant march on London/King Richard II "agreed" to demands

City revolts:

• Industrial/Commercial decline after Black Death
• Industrialists paid low wages/prevented worker organizations
• Revolts often won short-term gains/later revoked by ruling classes