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Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History (Hardcover)
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Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
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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.
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