Gareth Austin / Kaoru Sugihara (Hrsg.)

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Herausgeber: Austin, Gareth; Sugihara, Kaoru

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume calls for a major rethinking of our understanding of industrialization for global history, by bringing the East Asian experience of a labour-intensivea (TM) industrialization into focus and, thereby, reinterpreting both the western experience of a capital-intensivea (TM) industrialization and the equally distinctive experiences of countries in other regions of Asia and in Africa and Latin America. We argue that the absorption of labour into a labour-intensivea (TM) industries, both traditional and modern, and the improvement of the quality of labour formed a central mechanism of global diffusion of industrialization. This volume presents a discussion on the significance of labour-intensive industrialization by leading economic historians engaged in the development of synthesizing theses and/or specializing in relevant regions, and seeking to foster the new academic dialogue on global economic history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 222mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780415455527
• ISBN-10: 0415455529
• Artikelnr.: 23800158

Autorenporträt

Gareth Austin is Professor of African and Comparative Economic History and Chair, Department of International History at The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland Kaoru Sugihara is Professor of Economic History at Kyoto University, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 Labour
intensive industrialization in global history: an interpretation of East Asian experiences 3 The industrious revolutions in East and West 4 Proto
industrialization and labour
intensive industrialization: reflections on Smithian growth and the role of skill intensity 5 Labour
intensity and industrializaton in colonial India 6 Labour
intensive industrialization in the rural Yangzi Delta: late imperial patterns and their modern fates 7 From peasant economy to urban agglomeration: the transformation of 'labour
intensive industrialization' in modern Japan 8 Government promotion of labour
intensive industrialization in Indonesia, 1930
1975 9 Labour intensity and manufacturing in West Africa, c.1450
c.2000 10 'Colonial' industry and 'modern' manufacturing: opportunities for labour
intensive growth in Latin America c.1800
1940s 11 Labour
intensive industrialization: the case of nineteenth
century Alsace 12 Labour
intensive industrialization and global economic development: reflections