Journal article
Further thoughts on agrarian capitalism: a reply to Albritton
The Journal of peasant studies, Vol.29(1), pp.129-154
2001
DOI: 10.1080/714003932
PMID: 18680866
Abstract
In response to Albritton [2000], who asserts that the central dynamic of capitalism's genesis was putting-out manufacturing, I provide a sketch of the processes of agrarian capitalism. The elaboration of the common law in the Middle Ages enabled widespread conversion to leaseholds after the plague. An increasingly privatized system of land ownership resulted from the enclosure movement in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the upheavals of the seventeenth century represented the triumph of the enclosers. The rise of cottage industry in the eighteenth century was supported by a systematic effort at improving agricultural productivity. By the Industrial Revolution, the principle of individual control over production had long been established.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Further thoughts on agrarian capitalism: a reply to Albritton
- Creators
- M Zmolek
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of peasant studies, Vol.29(1), pp.129-154
- Publisher
- England
- DOI
- 10.1080/714003932
- PMID
- 18680866
- ISSN
- 0306-6150
- eISSN
- 1743-9361
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- History; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984025644002771
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