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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