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Karl Marx and Enclosures in England
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The question of why England was able to expand its productive capacities well in advance of other countries is of obvious interest to anyone who wants to understand the preconditions and mechanisms of economic development as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Review of Radical Political Economics.The article was published on 1974-07-01. It has received 42 citations till now.read more
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Towards the proletarianization of physicians.
John B. McKinlay,Joan Arches +1 more
TL;DR: Physicians are slowly being reduced to a proletarian function, and their formerly self-interested activities subordinated to the broader requirements of the capitalist control of highly profitable medical production.
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Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
TL;DR: This paper argued that women and children were the primary exploiters of common rights and their loss led to changes in women's economic position within the family and more generally to increased dependence of whole families on wages and wage earners.
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The History and Social Influence of the Potato.
TL;DR: Salamon as mentioned in this paper discusses the potato in pre-Spanish Peru, and by documentary evidence shows that Costellanos was the first white inan to find and describe the potato and not Cieza de Leon who has for years been given the credit for the discovery.
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Organizational Contradictions in Public Bureaucracies: Toward a Marxian Theory of Organizations*
TL;DR: An alternative approach to organizational theory is outlined, based on Marxian categories and propositions as discussed by the authors, in terms of various organizational phenomena such as organizing activity vs organization; historical contradictions between organizational control structures and new forms of organizing work activity (e.g., occupational and professional status groups vs administrative rationalization and bureaucratization; bureaucratic and technocratic administration vs selforganization of labor and workers' control).
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The impact of colonialism on health and health services in Tanzania.
TL;DR: Extensive malnutrition and persistent ill health related to poor diet are traced directly to capitalist underdevelopment of the Tanzanian economy and the structural distortions of a dependent relationship between Tanzania and the metropolitan power.
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The theory of economic development
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The stages of economic growth
TL;DR: The Stages of Economic Growth as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the theory of economic growth, and it has been extended to include economic and political developments as well as the advances in theory concerning nonlinear and chaotic phenomena.
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The Making of the English Working Class
R. Currie,R. M. Hartwell +1 more
TL;DR: The main controversialists in the standard-of-living debate have come from the fringes of the established academic world, from areas remote from agreed courses and acceptable topics; their work, criticized as polemical, is certainly spirited, even aggressive as discussed by the authors.
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What Do Bosses Do?: The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that self-expression in work must at best be a luxury reserved for the very few regardless of social and economic organization, and even the satisfactions of society's elite must be perverted by their dependence on their dependence, with rare exception, on the denial of selfexpression to others.