The Ned Ludd cycle begins with a song about the enclosure movement in Early Modern England, effectively a pastoral ode to preindustrial England, and then moves on to the plight of the workers who have been displaced by industrialization.
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"When Pat doesn't want to address something, he'll give a little lecture on the history of the Enclosure Movement in England, " said Richard Nathan, director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, who served with Moynihan in the Nixon White House.
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Peasant resistance to industrialisation was largely eliminated by the Enclosure movement, and the landed upper classes developed commercial interests that made them pioneers in removing obstacles to the growth of capitalism . ( This point is also made in Hilaire Belloc's " The Servile State " .)
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Despite this reclusive side of his personality, Wordsworth was a strong believer in family and community, and he was much concerned with the effects on ( especially poor ) people's way of life of social change ( for example, due to the enclosure movement ) that were taking place.
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The change in status following the enclosure movements beginning in the later 18th century, in which various lords abandoned the open field farming of previous centuries and, essentially, took all the best land for themselves in exchange for " freeing " their serfs, may well have made serfdom seem more desirable to many peasant families.
