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Google "The Enclosures". In Britain people had their right to subsist off common land removed by Parliament[1]. You can argue that the move from agriculture to
by helpfulmandrill 5y ago
Google "The Enclosures". In Britain people had their right to subsist off common land removed by Parliament[1].
You can argue that the move from agriculture to industry, from countryside to city, would have happened anyway. What is indisputable is that for many people, the possibility of subsisting in the ways they had before were systematically removed by the state (at the time under the complete control of the property-owning classes).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#Parliamentary_Inclosure_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#Parliamentary_Inclos...
- Aunche 5y agoWould enclosures not have happened if industrialization didn't? IMO this was inevitable because peasants simply lost the leverage that they had received after the black plague. Countries like the US had no such laws, yet they all went through the same industrialization occurred all the same.
- helpfulmandrill 5y agoI don't know. Impossible to tell, I guess. I'm just pointing out that choice didn't come into it for many people. What choices they would have made had history gone differently, I can't say. Whatever might, hypothetically have happened in another timeline, as a matter of historical fact it was not a peaceful, free-market process of people voting with their feet.