Primitve Accumulation

[Positivist]

Does anyone know of any non-marxist sources which support the account of primitive accumulation? It seems obvious to me that it occurred as the market alternative that "some people worked hard and were smart with their resources, and everybody else was lazy" is absolutely absurd, but I'd like to get some "objective" (by bourgiose standards) sources to back up the claim. Maybe any primary source accounts from the time period?

[pluckedflowers]

You might find Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation worth checking out.

[Teacher]

Marxist historians loom pretty large in this period of history and are considered pretty "credible" as far as I can tell. People like Rodney Hilton, Maurice Dobb, Robert Brenner, Michael Perelman, Perry Anderson, Charles Tilly and Eric Hobsbawm are all considered some kind of leftist or Marxist but are taken seriously.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Does anyone know of any non-marxist sources which support the account of primitive accumulation? It seems obvious to me that it occurred as the market alternative that "some people worked hard and were smart with their resources, and everybody else was lazy" is absolutely absurd, but I'd like to get some "objective" (by bourgiose standards) sources to back up the claim. Maybe any primary source accounts from the time period?

I believe that Thomas Hodgskin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hodgskin) wrote about the phenomenon. And, seeing as he was born in 1787, he's pretty close to a primary source.