The enclosure movement in England was a period that defined class structure for many years and has influenced modern classism. It started with the land-owning citizens changing the way the world viewed ownership. Land was no longer divided per title, but instead with monetary compensation. Land was no longer considered public or common, it was private and this left non-landowners out of luck. This created a visible divide between classes and made the rich richer and the poor much poorer. Although labor jobs became available for the poor, there is no job that can replace the loss of a place to keep their livestock. Without a place to keep these animals they would be forced to give them up and lose the reliable resource. With a need for jobs for lower class people growing the industrial revolution came along. Farmers with enclosed land had begun to create machines to do their work and began innovations into agricultural technology. With the masses to run factories and the farmers able to innovate with their time the enclosure movement set the stage for the industrial revolution.
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