Myths of Capitalism

Return to The Wondrous Free Market

Part 1: No state intervention in formation

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_fundamentalism

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manorialism

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market#Laissez-faire_economics

4) Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Beacon Press, Boston. 1944. p. 87.

5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts

6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

7) https://www.britannica.com/event/Reformation

8) https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/the-iron-fist-behind-the-invisible-hand-corporate-capitalism-as-a-stateguaranteed-system-of-privilege/

9) The Town Labourer, J.L. & Barbara Hammond: https://archive.org/details/townlabourer00hammuoft/page/8

10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_for_the_Relief_of_the_Poor_1601

11) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system

12) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundsman_System

13) https://spartacus-educational.com/IRworkhouse.htm

14) http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/royalcom.html

15) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1929

16) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_Act_1799

17) https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/british-and-irish-history/combination-acts

18) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1824/may/21/combination-laws-resolutions-of-select

19) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinations_of_Workmen_Act_1825

20) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Union_Act_1871

21) https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/social-reformers/francis-place

22) https://archive.org/details/townlabourer00hammuoft/page/134

23) https://archive.org/details/townlabourer00hammuoft/page/133

24) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Acts

25) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/37/enacted - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1831/37/pdfs/ukpga_18310037_en.pdf

26) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mills_and_Factories_Act_1819

27) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1825/may/16/cotton-mills-regulation-bill#S2V0013P0_18250516_HOC_43

28) https://archive.org/details/townlabourer00hammuoft/page/65

29) https://www.geriwalton.com/the-treadmill-for-punishmen/

30) https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-peterloo-massacre

31) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_War

32) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Rising

33) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canut_revolts

34) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_Pottery_riots

35) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_miners%27_strike_of_1873

36) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_Broken_Hill_miners%27_strike

37) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanelli_riots_of_1911

38) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonypandy_riots

39) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

40) https://libcom.org/library/us-thibodaux-massacre-1887

41) https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-Strike

42) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/getting_vote.htm

43) http://constitution.org/lev/eng_lev_08.htm (40 shillings was a commonly held standard for voting rights, at least by Ireton)

44) http://www.putneydebates.com/