2 Both periods – mid-nineteenth
century onwards in Brazil, eighteenth century in England -- belong in the
stage of predominantly extensive accumulation, or development, in
which production of commodities increases through the development of techniques
plus
through extension of wage labour over hitherto non-wage workers. Nowadays
most parts of the world are already in a stage of predominantly intensive
development in which production can increase solely due to the development
of techniques which lead in turn ti increased productivity of labour.
For a periodization of capitalism and an account of the extensive/ intensive
stages of accumulation, see Aglietta (1976
).
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