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