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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476806703321

Autore

Nagata Mary Louise

Titolo

Labor contracts and labor relations in early modern central Japan / / Mary Louise Nagata

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2005]

©2005

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Collana

Changing labour relations in Asia

Disciplina

331/.0952/0903

Soggetti

Industrial relations - Japan - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Capitalism, industry and the organization of labor -- 2. Stem family and lineage businesses -- 3. Labor organization in industry -- 4. Labor contracts and contract labor -- 5. Workers, guarantors and migration patterns -- 6. Contract conditions -- 7. Conflict and resolution -- 8. Labor in early modern Japan and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from a wider region of commercial and castle towns and rural villages in central Japan.