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> ... a way of seeing both obfuscations of labor as bound up in the same process of economic and ecological myth-making: rural people yield their labor to the lord’s grasp as willingly as the pike in the stream or the plum in the tree, and they are not the worse for it. Indeed, for Young, no less than for Jonson, exploitation is good for them: how else would people or places learn to be productive if not for the firm hand of their lordly masters?
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