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      Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History
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      Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

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      Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History book

      Edited ByGareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2013
      eBook Published 31 May 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203067611
      Pages 328
      eBook ISBN 9780203067611
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Global Development, Humanities
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      Austin, G., & Sugihara, K. (Eds.). (2013). Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203067611

      ABSTRACT

      The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take for a further diffusion of industrialization, which might respond to the rising expectations of living standards without catastrophic environmental degradation.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|19 pages

      Introduction

      ByGARETH AUSTIN, KAORU SUGIHARA

      chapter 2|45 pages

      Labour- intensive industrialization in global history: an interpretation of East Asian experiences

      ByKAORU SUGIHARA

      chapter 3|20 pages

      The industrious revolutions in East and West

      ByJAN D E VRIES

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Proto- industrialization and labour- intensive industrialization: reflections on Smithian growth and the role of skill intensity

      ByOSAMU SAITO

      chapter 5|15 pages

      Labour- intensity and industrializaton in colonial India

      ByTIRTHANKAR ROY

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Labour- intensive industrialization in the rural Yangzi Delta: late imperial patterns and their modern fates

      ByKENNETH POMERANZ

      chapter 7|32 pages

      From peasant economy to urban agglomeration: the transformation of ‘labour- intensive industrialization’ in modern Japan

      ByMASAYUKI TANIMOTO

      chapter 8|25 pages

      Government promotion of labour- intensive industrialization in Indonesia, 1930–1975

      ByPIERRE VAN DER ENG

      chapter 9|30 pages

      Labour intensity and manufacturing in West Africa, c.1450–c.2000

      ByGARETH AUSTIN

      chapter 10|32 pages

      ‘Colonial’ industry and ‘modern’ manufacturing: opportunities for labour- intensive growth in Latin America c.1800–1940s

      ByCOLIN M . LEWIS

      chapter 11|17 pages

      Labour- intensive industrialization: the case of nineteenth- century Alsace

      ByMICHEL HAU, NICOLAS STOSKOPF

      chapter 12|23 pages

      Labour- intensive industrialization and global economic development: reflections

      ByGARETH AUSTIN
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