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• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 463
• Professor: Jasmin Hristov

Document Summary

The first reading by cox and nilsen focuses on the development of capitalism in the global sphere by analyzing the ways in which it was moulded by social movements. The authors introduce the concept of primitive accumulation, defined as the redistribution of the means of production from the direct producers" to the capitalists". By restricting the access to primary resources of production, a new system of dependency whereby the producer is forced to depend on the capitalist was created. This dependency, the authors argue, is what resulted in the exploitation of individuals and paved the way for the subjection of humans to forced labour. This reading also emphasized the relationship between wealth accumulation, colonial expansion and slavery as it argues that the latter (slavery) was a result of the scarcity of labour and its growing demand in the new world".