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Assignment 2

The beginning of sixteenth culture was very difficult for the entire world. It was a time when countries like England, France, Portugal and Spain began their expansion. Colonization began all around the world and it had effects. Some of the consequences still didn’t resolve in a modern world. However, the colonization was an issue of a colonized new worlds at the same time people of these power countries experienced local problems too.

Silvia Federici in the chapter “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” explains that government started to privatize the land and forced people into labor. Enclosing of a land had a huge impact on people’s lives because before that people could provide for themselves. They grew food and sold it to others. After privatization, people lost their old way of life. Now they had to work for somebody and get a payment. At the same time, in the other parts of the world, slavery started to emerge. Going back to England and other countries, men found themselves working for the government but women lost their purpose. Women’s task was trimmed to just reproductive labor. Land privatization harmed women more that men because the old way of life crushed and they found themselves moving from place to place and it became a thread. Women were unprotected from hunger and especially male violence. Unfortunately, it was a time when misogyny was at rise. Also, women had to care for children and protect them somehow. Some women found a job in military services as cooks or nurses but later on even these jobs were taken from them. And, if we move to the other countries that were colonized, people were enslaved into labor. There were a lot of struggles and rebellions but it didn’t make an impact and only degraded their lives.  Many men were killed by colonizers and women were left without husbands, protectors and providers. So, they and their children were exposed to even more violence from cruel masters.

Thus, from sixteenth century to twenties century people did a lot of good things as exploration and inventions as well as bad things such as colonization and enslavement of people for unpaid and unjust labor. And, only people who suffered from this were other less privileged people, who were only a different race or gender.