Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 486 Seiten)
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9789004520172
Series Statement:
Library of economic history volume 17
Content:
"In this book Peer Vries is the first scholar to provide an extensive test of the claim that industrialization in East Asia, in particular in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and World War Two, would have been much more labour intensive than industrialization in the West. He does this by systematically comparing the role and importance of labour and capital in Japan and in a number of Western countries at a similar stage of their industrial development. He uses macro-economic data as well as specific observations by people at the time. It turns out that there is no reason to distinguish a specific labour-intensive Japanese route of industrialization. His comparative analysis provides us with a better understanding of the logic of industrialization in both West and East"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004518735
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vries, Peer, 1953 - An East Asian route of industrialization? Leiden : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004518735
Language:
English
Keywords:
Japan
;
Europa
;
Industrialisierung
;
Industrielle Revolution
;
Arbeitsproduktivität
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Geschichte 1868-1937
DOI:
10.1163/9789004520172
Author information:
Vries, Peer 1953-
