From Pistor, Code of Capital: ![[Reference Notes/The Code of Capital#The Enclosure movement]] From Hickel, Less is More: After the Civil War of the 1640s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when the bourgeoisie took over Parliament, a series of laws - Parliamentary Enclosures - were passed that accelerated enclosure. Between 1760 and 1870, about 7 million acres, or 1/6th of England, were enclosed by legal writ. Masses of dispossessed peasants were forced to move to cities and provided cheap labour for the Industrial Revolution.