This volume calls for a major rethinking of our understanding of industrialization for global history, by bringing the East Asian experience of labour-intensive' industrialization into focus and, thereby, reinterpreting both the western experience of capital-intensive' industrialization and the equally distinctive experiences of countries in other regions of Asia and in Africa and Latin America. We argue that the absorption of labour into labour-intensive' industries, both traditional and modern, and the improvement of the quality of labour formed a central mechanism of global diffusion of...
This volume calls for a major rethinking of our understanding of industrialization for global history, by bringing the East Asian experience of labour...
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 conditions for indigenous as well as (during colonial rule) for foreign private enterprise. It saw generally increasing external demands for products...
This is a study of the changing rules and relationships within which natural, human and man-made resources were mobilized for production during the de...
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stood the test of time. Polly Hill's classic study was originally published in 1963. New edition published in association with the International African Institute North America: Transaction Books; Germany: Lit Verlag.
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in...
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...
The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deploye...
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. This 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...
For the populations of the developing economies the vast majority of humanity the present century offers the prospect of emulating Western standard...
