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Factory Legislation and Management Modernization during Japan's Industrialization, 1886–1916

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Koji Taira
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics, University of Illinois

Abstract

Faced with a labor shortage at a crucial point in the industrialization of Japan, tradition-oriented businessmen reacted not by raising wages but by longing for the authority-ordered labor relations of the past. Given this situation, the Meiji government moved to improve working conditions through non-economic means. Professor Taira shows that the debate over proposed factory legislation, along with the coming-of-age of a new generation of entrepreneurs, produced a “conversion” to modern management among businessmen of the late-Meiji generation.

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1970

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