Journal article
Debating Agrarian Capitalism: A Rejoinder to Albritton
The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.31(2), pp.276-305
01/01/2004
DOI: 10.1080/0306615042000224311
Abstract
The present article seeks to address outstanding areas of disagreement in this debate, as well as increasingly apparent differences of theoretical approach. The nature and origin of the social relationship of capital is discussed, and a provocative assertion is advanced suggesting that the commodification of land and its conversion to capital under the conditions of agrarian capitalism formed a prerequisite to the commodification of labour. In addressing the role played by pre-industrial manufacturing in the transition to capitalism it is argued that where customary law was widely extinguished through enclosures under the common law, custom in manufacturing slowed the process by which it was subsumed by capital.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Debating Agrarian Capitalism: A Rejoinder to Albritton
- Creators
- Mike Zmolek
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.31(2), pp.276-305
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1080/0306615042000224311
- ISSN
- 0306-6150
- eISSN
- 1743-9361
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2004
- Academic Unit
- Interdisciplinary Programs; History
- Record Identifier
- 9983921853902771
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