DEVT10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primitive Accumulation Of Capital, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Chain Reaction
28 Jul 2018
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Continuing today - example indigenous people and mining. Egypt was a v important civilisation that had been functioning for thousands of years. Their sophistication in terms of gov, labour and production was phenomenal. Ghana empire (5th century ad 1203) Spread of islam throughout north & west africa, plus coast of east africa (peak of expansion c10-13) A civilisation as well as a religion, bringing education and literacy. Slavery is a form of forced labour. Labourers generally obtained by physical force, bought and sold as commodities and become their owner"s property, subject to his will. Tribute labour (labour services or payments in kind) Indentured labour (people contract themselves to work for an agreed number of years to a particular employer) Semi-proletarianization (where people who have inadequate access to means of production, or have been disposed of them, have to provide labour for others)
