Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Capital, Volume One: Chapter 28

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Year Published:  1867
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12021

Agricultural people: first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system.

Subject Headings

• Branding
• British History
• Enclosures of Commons
• Expropriation
• History of Capitalism
• Migrants
• Poverty
• Primitive Accumulation
• Proletariat
• Slavery
• State-sponsored Violence
• Vagabondage
• Wage Labour