Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development / / Solomon B. Levine, Hisashi Kawada.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kawada, Hisashi,; Levine, Solomon B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 659
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

By focusing on the educational and skill training institutions Japan has developed to generate human resources for modern industry, this book represents a new contribution to the historical analysis of Japan's modern economic growth. The authors concentrate on those large-scale industries that seem to pose the greatest challenges for an agrarian society, such as Japan was in the 1870's, in order to show how an economically less developed country becomes an advanced industrialized nation.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Human Resources in Modern Economic Development -- II. Formal Education in the Development of Japan's Modern Economy -- III. Educational Indicators of Japan's Human Resource Development -- IV. Industrial Training in Japan: An Overview -- V. Training in Basic Industries: Steel and Shipbuilding in the Prewar Period -- VI. Training Within Government-Owned Industries: Railways and Telecommunications -- VII. Training Patterns in Traditional Private Industries: Banking, Textiles, and Mining -- VIII. Training in Capital-Intensive Industries: Heavy Machinery, Electrical Equipment, and Chemicals -- IX. Human Resources in Japanese Industry: Problems and Prospects -- Bibliography -- Index