The peak of parliamentary enclosure
The great majority of English enclosure Acts were passed in this period, redrawing the field boundaries of thousands of parishes and extinguishing common rights over pasture, gleaning, fuel and waste. Whether it raised agricultural productivity is disputed; that it converted customary occupiers into wage labourers, some of whom moved to the towns, is not.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Parliamentary enclosure · phenomenon · United Kingdom · not located
- Nineteenth-century British urbanisation · phenomenon · United Kingdom · not located
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
Cambridge University Press · 2009 · Partly verified
Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
Recorded on Parliamentary enclosure
- The peak of parliamentary enclosure
- Chadwick reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population
- The census records an urban majority
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