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- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Resource Type: Book Published: 1890 Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Common land
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights.
- Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
- Inclosure Acts
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. This meant that the rights that people once held to graze animals on these areas were denied.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Selling the Silver
The Enclosure of the UK's Fisheries Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
- Towns for People
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
- The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Hill looks at radical groups such as the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters, and others, whose ideas threatened to overturn the established order in the mid-seventeenth century.
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