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Comments on the Brenner–Wood Exchange on the Low Countries
Author(s) -
Post Charles
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of agrarian change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1471-0366
pISSN - 1471-0358
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0366.00025
Subject(s) - restructuring , coercion (linguistics) , industrialisation , relations of production , economics , subject (documents) , economic system , market economy , political economy , economy , political science , production (economics) , linguistics , philosophy , finance , library science , computer science , macroeconomics
The exchange between Brenner and Wood on the Low Countries in the early modern period raises a number of theoretical and historical issues relating to the conditions for the emergence of capitalist social‐property relations and their unique historical laws of motion. This contribution focuses on three issues raised in the Brenner‐Wood exchange: the conditions under which rural house‐hold producers become subject to ‘market coercion’, the potential for ecological crisis to restructure agricultural production, and the relative role of foreign trade and the transformation of domestic, rural class relations to capitalist industrialization.