Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History write by Gareth Austin. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction write by Robert C. Allen. This book was released on 2011-09-15. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937
An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937 write by Peer Vries. This book was released on 2022-08-01. An East Asian Route of Industrialization? The Case of Japan, 1868-1937 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa write by Keijiro Otsuka. This book was released on 2019-01-16. Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective write by Robert C. Allen. This book was released on 2009-04-09. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
