The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By E. Wood. 2002

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• Colonial global economy: towards a theoretical reorientation of political economy (2020, background): “…of capitalism within the field of political economy, and the social sciences more generally, tend to focus on expanding trade and markets on the one hand (Wallerstein, 1974, 1980) and the changing nature of the social relations of production on the other (Brenner, 1976, 1977; Wood, 2002).”
• The Origins of Fossil Capital: From Water to Steam in the British Cotton Industry* (2013, background): “This critique is derived from that developed by Ellen Meiksins Wood and Robert Brenner in the context of the debate on the origins of capitalism.”
• Turning Land into Capital, Turning People into Labor: Primitive Accumulation and the Arrival of Large-Scale Economic Land Concessions in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (2011, background): “Ellen Wood (2002), for example, implies that capitalism can move ahead of political authority and develop elsewhere without the particular forms of violence through state involvement that occurred as a result of the primitive accumulation in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”
• Cultural political economy meets global production networks: a productive meeting? (2008, background): “…(seeing this as an enduring feature of the process of accumulation rather than a transitory phase in the early history of capitalism: for example, see Wood, 2002), the appropriation of value from spaces of non-capitalist economic practices and values and their translation into circuits of capital.”
• Conservation practice as primitive accumulation (2011, background): “Ellen Meiksins Wood (2002, 36) argues in The Origin of Capitalism that ‘the ‘‘primitive accumulation’’ of classical political economy is ‘‘so-called’’ because capital, as Marx defines it, is a social relation and not just any kind of wealth or profit . . . what transformed wealth into capital was a…”
• The resurgence of gig work: Historical and theoretical perspectives (2017, background): “Casual, seasonal and contract labour were the predominant forms of paid work as capitalism first emerged and consolidated (Deakin, 2000; Wood, 2002).”
• Accumulation by Conservation (2014, methodology): “Meiksins Wood posits that the origin of capitalism is habitually explained as ‘there really being no origin’ at all: ‘capitalism seems always to be there, somewhere; and it only needs to be released from its chains’ (2002: 4).”
• The land question: special economic zones and the political economy of dispossession in India (2012, background): “However, subsequent scholarship questioned the centrality of ‘enclosures’ to transitions to capitalist agriculture in other parts of the world (Byres 1991), and even to the ‘classic’ transition to capitalism in England (Wood 2002).”