ANT204H1 Lecture : African Genocide Explained II - May 24
Document Summary
Pressure in the merchants to provide constant supply. Capitalism: workers divorced from any way of living other than selling their labour for less than what"s it"s worth. Mass production a result of controlled work conditions. Initially cheaply priced so demand increased (cheap to people with money) Constant supply of raw materials and constant market demand is necessary for industrialized nations to prosper. Capitalists running out of supply and demand so they asked help from the state >> turned to colonialism. Trade relations from before but with the demands of industrialization, europeans prompted into taking over foreign indigenous populations for a newer market and a source of labour and supply. Captured market, forced to buy only from mother country. Railways designed for the purpose of moving goods, not with the people (uniting them) in mind. Hospitals were made but they were very few, schools for the sake of educating the natives so that they can be easily manipulated into their side.
