GGR329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Broiler, Plants And Animals, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital
4 Aug 2017
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Moving from extra-economic (i. e. feudal) to economic (market based wage labour & rental markets) class relations. Landlords impelled to improve the productivity of their land instead of relying on political/military power. Incentives to shift to more productive uses of land. Investing in productivity of land via technological investments. Putting pressure on tenants b/c have to pay rent. Puts pressure on tenants to also invest in increased. Dispossession/differentiation from above and from below productivity of their land. More productive producers able to get a bigger share of market than less productive. Landlords/elites using political power through the state to change property laws. Abolishing laws that allowed for common, open uses of land, and instead privatizing them extra-economic differentiation that works through laws. Processes of agrarian transitions happening in uneven ways in different geographies. Surpluses being shipped back to colonial powers in europe.
