TY - BOOK AU - Thomas C. Smith TI - Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 / SN - 9780520062931 U1 - REF 330.952 Sm51 PY - 1988/// CY - Berkeley, Calif. PB - University of California Press KW - Economic history KW - Industrialization KW - Japan KW - Japan Economic conditions KW - Japan Social conditions N1 - Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West The land tax in the Tokugawa period Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan Japan's aristocratic revolution The discontented "Merit" as ideology in the Tokugawa period Ōkura Nagatsune and the technologists Peasant time and factory time in Japan The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920 N2 - When and how did Japanese industrialization begin? Why did industrialization begin much earlier in Japan than in other non-Western nations? What does the Japanese case add to our understanding of modern economic growth generally? This book address these questions by focusing sharply on the problems strategic to them ER -