An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937 / / Peer Vries.

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 systemati...

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Superior document:Library of Economic History ; 17
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Library of Economic History ; 17.
Physical Description:1 online resource (505 pages)
Notes:The idea has become popular that industrialisation in East Asia, in particular Japan, was fundamentally differently from Western industrialization because it would have been much more labour-intensive. This book shows that this claim is unfounded.
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