I'm sorry, is there further reading material on this? I am pretty new to political/economic science.

Look up the English Enclosure acts. They brought about a large-scale robbery of peasants by landowners in the 17th and 18th centuries, and created a proletarian class that needed factory work to survive. Things got a little better in the 19th and especially 20th centuries.

https://www.progress.org/wiki/enclosure/

https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-en...