By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
The social order that capital’s apologists defend as inevitable and eternal is “the product of many economic revolutions, of the extinction of a whole series of older formations of social production.” Acceptance of the wages-system as a natural way to live and work did not happen easily.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
An important factor in the rise of the Dutch merchant-industrialist class, scarcely mentioned in many accounts, was the absolute dominance of the Dutch fishing industry in the North Sea.