The Recruitment of an Industrial Labor Force in India, with British and American Comparisons

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2106397
AutoresMorris David Morris (University of Washington, autor de correspondencia)
Año1960
Volumen2
Número3
Páginas305-328
Fecha de publicación1960-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500000748
OpenAlexW2026665537
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas24

There has been an overriding if not always explicit tendency to see Britain as the prototype of industrial revolutions wherever they have appeared. In one sense this tradition is not incorrect. An industrial revolution does require, generally speaking, a common set of basic preconditions and, as it proceeds, does generate a rather common set of general consequences. Nevertheless, the variety of possibilities are, within limits, substantial. As Professor Gerschenkron has reminded us, the very timing of the process of industrialization in one country as related to others is in itself very likely to produce different paths by which industrialization is achieved. This is partly the result of exposure to previous industrializations, the consequence of a 'demonstration effect', and partly the consequence of the changed international economic environment that succeeding economies face as a result of the industrialization that has gone before. Moreover, preexisting social institutions will to some extent modify the path and character of each nation's industrial development

Character (mathematics) · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Face (sociological concept) · Industrial Revolution · Industrialisation · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Set (abstract data type) · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law