tripartite division

…The parliamentary enclosures that were the core of this movement were not enclosures based on consultations between all the parties involved after the 17th century, but were determined by the agreement of a majority (3/4 or 2/3) of the landowners concerned, and were enforced as enclosures by law, not by a majority vote but by the area of ​​land owned. In the period from the late 18th century to the early 19th century, about 4,500 enclosures were formed, covering an area of ​​nearly 2.55 million hectares, in less than 100 years. In this way, British capitalist agriculture, characterized by a three-class structure (the so-called tripartite division) of large landowners, large capitalist managers, and agricultural workers, was established, and at the same time many rural people became urban workers. This is called the (second) agricultural revolution, and is seen as part of the British Industrial Revolution. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "tripartite division" is listed below.

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…この運動の中心をなす議会エンクロージャーは，17世紀以後の関係者全体の〈協議に基づく囲込み〉とは異なり，関係土地所有者の過半(3/4とか2/3)の合意により，しかも人数の多数決ではなくて所有面積をもって決定され，法律による囲込みとして強制されたから，18世紀後半～19世紀前半の100年たらずの期間に，件数にして約4500，面積にして255万haちかい土地が囲い込まれた。大土地所有者･資本家的大経営者･農業労働者という3階級構成(いわゆる〈三分割制tripartite division〉)をもって特徴づけられるイギリス型の資本制農業はこのようにして成立し，同時に多くの農村民は都市の労働者になった。これを〈(第2次)農業革命〉とよび，イギリス産業革命の一環をなすものとみる。…

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