The Industrial Revolution’s chief product was not goods but a new class of laborers who owned nothing and worked to survive. Historian Peter Linebaugh traces the creation of this working class through the violent enclosure of the commons they once relied on.
Very good, Male Historian. Here’s Silvia Federici’s seminal feminist work on the same subject: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/silvia-federici-caliban-and-the-witch
Why make this about gender?
Why not read Federici’s take and find out? 🙂