{"id":5032,"date":"2020-07-07T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2022-12-11T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T21:03:04","slug":"when-did-capitalism-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/when-did-capitalism-start\/","title":{"rendered":"When did Capitalism start?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been doing some reading recently on what I considered pre-capitalist history much of which I tried to put in a class struggle context, basically about the coming of the bourgeoisie. I always felt that Capitalism came into being at the end of the 17th century but others challanged this and since I can no longer rely on my schooling, here are some subsequent notes, mainly important dates between 1773 and 1844. …<\/p>\n

Important Dates (in my book)<\/h3>\n
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  1. 1764 The invention of the spinning Jenny<\/a>, interestingly increased the skills of textile workers<\/li>\n
  2. 1773\u00a0Inclosure Acts<\/a> 1773 – Wikipedia says, “Between 1604 and 1914, over 5,200 individual enclosure acts were passed, affecting 6.8\u00a0million acres (2,800,000\u00a0ha; 28,000\u00a0km2<\/sup>)”<\/li>\n
  3. 1801 The foundation of the London Stock Exchange<\/a> or 1698, they claim, if you’re truly nostalgic<\/li>\n
  4. 1844 Joint Stock Companies Act<\/a>, the introduction of limited liability (I think).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have been doing some reading recently on what I considered pre-capitalist history much of which I tried to put in a class struggle context, basically about the coming of the bourgeoisie. I always felt that Capitalism came into being at the end of the 17th century but others challanged this and since I can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[345],"tags":[1399,1431,924],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-capital-markets","tag-capitalism","tag-history"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/threads-unsplash-jankoferlic-w650-cropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}