This difference marks a cleavage that splits Agrarian Fundamentalists into two factions-Tory and Marxist. The Tories believe that large farms and enclosures maintained or increased farm employment while increasing production even more; the result was a rise in both yields and labour productivity. In contrast, the Marxists insist that the new institutions reduced farm employment, thereby raising productivity. These different views about farm operations have important implications for the analyses of the contributions of agrarian change to manufacturing development and of the causes of inequality.
