1st Edition
Historical Demography and Labor Markets in Prewar Japan
Edited By Michael Smitka
Copyright 1998
248 Pages
by
Routledge
Makes Japanese sources accessible in English Although much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan's leading economic historians have published widely in English. Combined with the work of Western economists who can utilize Japanese-language sources, this series assembles a wide range of English-language articles on the key issues in Japanese... Read more
Introduction, Infanticide in Early Modern Japan? Demography, Culture, and Population Growth, Why Are There No Spinsters in Japan?, Peasant Migrants in the Economic Development of Nineteenth-Century Japan, Business Cycles and the Outflow of Labor from the Agricultural Sector, Two Centuries of Mortality Change in Central Japan: The Evidence from a Temple Death Register, Formation of the Census System in Japan: 1871-1945 - Development of the Statistical System in Japan Proper and Her Colonies, Demographic Transition in Japan, Redundancy Utilized: The Economics of Female Domestic Servants in Pre-War Japan, Demographic Transition in the Process of Japanese Industrialization, The Labor Force in Meiji Economic Growth: A Quantitative Study of Yamanashi Prefecture, Acknowledgments
Biography
Michael Smitka
