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Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

2 494 kr

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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.

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

AvKaoru Sugihara,Gareth Austin

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

1 074 kr

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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.

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

AvKaoru Sugihara,Gareth Austin

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2013

1 074 kr

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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.

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

AvGareth Austin,Kaoru Sugihara

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

904 kr

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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.

Local Suppliers Of Credit In The Third World 1750-1960

AvGareth Austin,K Sugihara

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2015

685 kr

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Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene

Perspectives on Asia and Africa

AvGareth Austin

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

508 kr

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This open access book explores the interactions between economic development and the physical environment in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. The contributors focus on the ‘Anthropocene’: our present era, in which humanity’s influence on the physical environment has begun to mark the geological record. For the populations of the developing economies – the vast majority of humanity – the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation itself. Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene examines environmental changes at global level and human responses to environmental opportunities and constraints on more local and regional scales, themes which have been insufficiently studied to date. This volume fills this gap in the literature by combining historical, economic and geographical perspectives to consider the implications of the Anthropocene for economic development in Asia and Africa.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene

Perspectives on Asia and Africa

AvGareth Austin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

1 866 kr

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This open access book explores the interactions between economic development and the physical environment in four regions of the developing world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. The contributors focus on the ‘Anthropocene’: our present era, in which humanity’s influence on the physical environment has begun to mark the geological record. For the populations of the developing economies – the vast majority of humanity – the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined with increasing awareness of the environmental consequences of the very process of global industrialisation itself. Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene examines environmental changes at global level and human responses to environmental opportunities and constraints on more local and regional scales, themes which have been insufficiently studied to date. This volume fills this gap in the literature by combining historical, economic and geographical perspectives to consider the implications of the Anthropocene for economic development in Asia and Africa.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Del 18 - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana

From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956

AvGareth Austin

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

658 kr

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An examination of the varied ways, outside and inside markets, in which Asante producers obtained labor, land and capital during the transformative era.This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made resources were mobilized for production during the development of an agricultural export economy in Asante, a major West African kingdom which became, by 1945, the biggest regional contributor to Ghana's status as the world's largest cocoa producer. The period 1807-1956 as a whole was distinguished in Asante history by relatively favorable political conditionsfor indigenous as well as [during colonial rule] for foreign private enterprise. It saw generally increasing external demands for products that could be produced on Asante land. This book, which fills a major gap in Asante economic history, transcends the traditional divide between studies of precolonial and of twentieth-century African history. It analyses the interaction of coercion and the market in the context of a rich but fragile natural environment,the central process being a transition from slavery and debt-bondage to hired labor and agricultural indebtedness. It contributes to the broad debate about Africa's historic combination of emerging "capitalist" institutions and persistent 'precapitalist' ones, and tests the major theories of the political economy of institutional change. It is written accessibly for an interdisciplinary readership.Gareth Austin is a Lecturer in Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Joint Editor of the Journal of African History.

Del 25 - People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History

Political Economy of Ghana in the Long Twentieth Century

1891-2011

AvGareth Austin,Kofi Adjepong-Boateng

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

545 kr

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A major study of modern Ghana's political economy, tracing how cocoa shaped the country's economic transformation, political change and enduring inequalities.This is the first study of the interaction of politics and economics of Ghana across the whole 'cocoa era', the period from when the country began to export cocoa beans in the late nineteenth century to the beginning of commercial petroleum exports in 2011. Ghana has been described as the most successful example of an indigenous 'cash crop revolution' in the early colonial period, which took the Gold Coast from producing no cocoa in 1890 to the world-leader twenty years later. The most prosperous 'peasant' - or rather, small-scale rural capitalist - economy in colonial Africa, embarked on import-substitution industrialization under the first president of independent Ghana (1957), Kwame Nkrumah. A period of mostly military rule followed from 1966, with the economy moving from stagnation to catastrophic implosion from 1975 to 1983. The collapse was reversed by the paradoxical adoption of economic liberalization under the left-wing 'revolutionary' government of J. J. Rawlings, followed by sustained economic growth into the petroleum era. Political liberalization followed, with the Fourth Republic established in 1992. Economic transformation, however, has been defined by urbanisation without industrialisation, and regional and social inequalities persist.The volume unites economists, economic historians, political historians and political scientists. It offers a broad approach, not confined to cocoa and considering political, economic and social history within a political economy perspective. Chapters draw on primary research, including archival and in some cases oral sources. Themes include the long-term dynamics of cocoa production, the political and economic impact of external trade shocks, inequalities, the long-term relationship between state and society, Nkrumah's foreign policy, the contested evolution of institutions such as the Bank of Ghana and cocoa cooperatives, a reconsideration of small-scale gold mining and the debates over post-independence economic policy.

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Gareth Austin – författare

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

Local Suppliers Of Credit In The Third World 1750-1960

Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene

Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene

Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana

Political Economy of Ghana in the Long Twentieth Century

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