This volume presents a discussion on the significance of labour-intensive industrialization by leading economic historians and seeks to foster a new academic dialogue on global economic history.
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…
<P>This volume calls for a major rethinking of our understanding of industrialization for global history, by bringing the East Asian experience of a l̃abour-intensivea (TM) industrialization into focus and, thereby, reinterpreting both the western experience of a c̃apital-intensiv…