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Enclosure acts in the
Industrial Revolution
- Industrial
Revolution people moved out of the countryside and into urban
factories
- offered
a better situation than what they were leaving
- Parliamentary
acts 1752 1860 open fields closed for use by peasants
- peasants
used to be able to put their animals there fish collect firewood
- peasants
depended on these open fields
- the
best land went to politically connected farmers
- the
rest of the land was waist with no access to water or would
- English
enclosures and Soviet collect visitation two instances of
anti-peasant mode of development written by Joseph Strong Berg he
said the political dominance of large landowners redistributed the
land in their own favor
- Rich
gave themselves the best land and almost all of it
- individual
landowners benefit and it just advantage the patents
- peasants
had three choices tenant farming like surf for large landowners,
move to the new world, move to a city
- sudha
shenoy between 1730 and 1839 4041 enclosure bills passed moved 30%
of agricultural land of England from peasants
- Gen.
enclosure act of 1801 also called the enclosure consolidation
dinner dies legal process of the other acts
- within
a few generations the enclosure acts created huge amounts of
industrial reserve labor
- they
work for starvation wages and often became prostitutes or thieves
- England
government started a poor relief supplement to make sure people
didn't starve
- employers
didn't have to pay high wages
- a
socialist movement started that blame the Industrial Revolution
for what happened
- rural
people lost their livelihood through legal means England
- small
industries like leaving wall when away because of cheap cotton and
industrialized methods of reading it
- positive
effects of enclosure acts is less land wastage, land of a good
farmer better because the neighboring said strip farmer is gone,
machines could be used on larger plots, crop rotation, animal
diseases less likely, less labor was needed to tend crops
- negative
effects farmers evicted from land they'd had for centuries, the
villagers owned no land animals kept on common pastors evicted,
poor farmers small plots of land unable to compete, poor moved
into cities to find work
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