4.2
New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of production
Most of the world’s productive systems go towards agricultural production.
Changes during this time period consisted of:
Population was rising, even in the diseased areas such as the Americas where the indigenous population was almost wiped out. .
New forms of coerced labor, gender roles, and ethnic and racial classes are seen in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Traditional peasant agriculture changes, this affected the demand for raw and finished products.
Intensified labor consisted of:
Slavery and other forms of labor greatly increased the amount work, buildings, and growing of crops. Slavery in Africa did not change.
The plantation economy grew large along with the demand for slaves in the Americas (Americas colonial economies depended on coerced labor).
Types of coerced labor consisted of:
New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of production
Most of the world’s productive systems go towards agricultural production.
Changes during this time period consisted of:
- agricultural labor
- systems and locations of manufacturing
- gender and social structures
- environmental processes.
Population was rising, even in the diseased areas such as the Americas where the indigenous population was almost wiped out. .
New forms of coerced labor, gender roles, and ethnic and racial classes are seen in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Traditional peasant agriculture changes, this affected the demand for raw and finished products.
Intensified labor consisted of:
- the development of frontier settlements in Russian Siberia
- Cotton textile production in India
- Silk textile production in China.
Slavery and other forms of labor greatly increased the amount work, buildings, and growing of crops. Slavery in Africa did not change.
The plantation economy grew large along with the demand for slaves in the Americas (Americas colonial economies depended on coerced labor).
Types of coerced labor consisted of:
- Chattel slavery- one of the harshest forms of slavery.
- Indentured servitude
- Encomienda
- and the Hacienda systems (plus the Incan mit’s system used in Spain).
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