THE PROLETARIAT, SLAVE, SERF AND THE HANDICRAFT Over time in the history of modern world man has walked through various stages of life. At every given stage of life, society was equally at a distinct economic stage. In deed, the history of man proper covers a span of about forty thousand years (Eaton, 1966:10).The primitive man was a savage, he lived in savagery. The spears and the hunting trap were his first instruments for hunting …showed first 75 words of 1785 total…

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