Economic History

Industrialization

Labour

Contents
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xiv
1 Introduction 1 Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara
2 Labour-intensive industrialization in global history: an interpretation of East Asian experiences 20
Kaoru Sugihara
3 The industrious revolutions in East and West 65 J an de Varies
4 Proto-industrialization and labour-intensive industrialization: reflections on Smithian growth and the
role of skill intensity 85 Osamu Saito
5 Labour-intensity and industrializaton in colonial India 107 Tirthankara Roy
6 Labour-intensive industrialization in the rural Yangzi Delta: late imperial patterns and their modern fates 122 Kenneth Pomeran Z
7 From peasant economy to urban agglomeration: the transformation of ‘labour-intensive industrialization’ in modern Japan 144 Masayuki Tanimoto
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8 Government promotion of labour-intensive industrialization in Indonesia, 1930–1975 176 Pierre van der Eng
9 Labour intensity and manufacturing in West Africa, c.1450–c.2000 201 G areth A ustin
10 ‘Colonial’ industry and ‘modern’ manufacturing: opportunities for labour-intensive growth in Latin America c.1800–1940s 231 Colin M. Lewis
11 Labour-intensive industrialization: the case of nineteenth-century Alsace 263 M ichel H au and
Nicolas Stoskopf
12 Labour-intensive industrialization and global economic development: reflections 280 Gareth Austin
Index 303