GEOG 1410- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 47 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1410
• Professor: Patricia Wood

Document Summary

The economic includes: productive forces, geographical spaces, who controls society"s resources. The 1% controls society: relations of productions: class relations, how does capitalism enter agriculture, english path (15th and 18th century, primitive accumulation. Feudal and common property transformed: property owners transformed, peasants to wage labourers. 3: peasants aka wage labourers: on going pa (primitive accumulation, before the 15 century> little farmers would work for themselves and land owners land for free, capitalism is progressive. The price of some the agriculture increased, and as result got rid of peasant farmers in order to gain pro t: common land became privatized, prussian path (16th to 19th century germany) Feudal landowners become capitalist: deploying coercive labour regimes, no political revolutions fmp, happening still today, american and canadian path (late 18th century) Independent commodity producers: buy and sell commodities, mechanized farming in farmers. Tend to be di erentiated in classes: capitalist farmers and wage labourers, asian path.