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Japan's socio-economic evolution : continuity and change
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Japan's socio-economic evolution : continuity and change

Author: Sarah Metzger-Court; Werner Pascha
Publisher: Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent : Japan Library, 1996.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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From the commercial and industrial transformation of Osaka in the late nineteenth century, to the role and status of Japanese multinationals in Europe, as well as such topics as 'the future of Toyotism', are representative of the issues both with regard to the time-span and the breadth of this volume which draws on the key papers given at the 1994 triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies,  Read more...
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sarah Metzger-Court; Werner Pascha
ISBN: 1873410395 9781873410394
OCLC Number: 34887250
Notes: Most papers are revised versions of those read at the Economics/Economic and Social History Section of the Seventh Triennial Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, held in Copenhagen, 22-26 August 1994 (p. x).
Description: xiv, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Rules, Goals, Information - A Key to the Question of Continuity and Change in Japan / Erich Pauer -- 2. On the Analysis of Change and Continuity in Japan's Socio-Economy / Werner Pascha -- 3. Tradition and Change in the Early Marketing of Japanese Silkworm Eggs: The First Large-scale Japanese Inroad into Western Markets (1863-1875) / Claudio Zanier -- 4. From Kitchen to Workshop: the Commercial and Industrial Transformation of Osaka in the Late Nineteenth Century / Sarah Metzger-Court -- 5. Continuity and Change in the Japanese Labour Market: Rural Impoverishment and the Geographical Origins of Female Textile Workers / Janet Hunter -- 6. Institutional Continuity and Functional Change: the Development of the System of Minsei-iin in the History of Social Welfare in Japan / Anna Maria Thranhardt -- 7. Scottish Political Economy in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) - Fukuzawa Yukichi and Liberal Economic Thought / Annette Schad-Seifert.
Responsibility: edited by Sarah Metzger-Court & Werner Pascha.
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From the commercial and industrial transformation of Osaka in the late nineteenth century, to the role and status of Japanese multinationals in Europe, as well as such topics as 'the future of Toyotism', are representative of the issues both with regard to the time-span and the breadth of this volume which draws on the key papers given at the 1994 triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, held in Copenhagen. Contributors from East and West Europe as well as Japan enhance the value of this in-depth study.

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