The Implications of The Enclosure Movement in England for Chinas Economic Development
As one of the most important event in English economic history, the enclosure movement involved fundamental economic and social changes as the old common-field system broke down and the modern private ownership was established. As numerous small landholders were ruthlessly pushed out of their land, the enclosure movement was accompanied by violence, exploitation and killing. More attention has been attached to its cruelty. With a careful analysis it is found that the enclosure movement was inevitable for the old open-field system hampered the improvement of productivity. With the amalgamation of land, capitalist agriculture was eventually established, which provided immense cheap agricultural products, raw materials, cheap labor force and a national integrated market for industrialization and urbanization. It has important implications for Chinas economic development. The current households farming is inefficient. The intensive and professional management of land is a way to correspond to the changing market. Industrialization and urbanization takes time as the enclosure movement lasted for about three hundred year. Excessive land conversion will cause social distress.
Guo Jinchuan Li Qiong
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
国际会议
2011 Academy for Global Business Advancement(AGBAs)8th World Congress(全球商务发展学会第八届国际会议)
大连
英文
415-422
2011-09-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）