SY203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labor Rights, Social Inequality

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Week 4 lecture 1 sept. 30th, 2013. Trajectory of french society leading up to revolution: first, 1750 france had feudal economy and class structure for seven hundred years. The name we gave to the laws structured the relations of production between classes was the corvee system based on: Second, the right the landholder had over the agricultural product of the serf: entitled the landholder by law to take as much as 50% of serf"s agricultural production. Third, the right of the landholder to impose economic exactions on serf labourers: took form of taxes, dues, fees levied by the lord on serf. In this case, social inequality embedded in the class relationships meant that while the surf labored for the landholder, landholder did not labour for the serf. By 1750, class privilege of the aristocracy grew to point that widened class distinctions and division between classes: result their privilege became greater and more exaggerated.

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