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Institutional Change and Rural Industrialization in China: The Putting-Out System in Handicraft Industry in Late Qing and Early Republic Period

Name: Institutional Change and Rural Industrialization in China: The Putting-Out System in Handicraft Industry in Late Qing and Early Republic Period
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by Feizhou Zhou | World Scientific | eText ISBN 9789814569934

This book explores the development of the putting-out system in hand-woven textile industries in late Qing Dynasty and China's Republican Period. In classic sociology theory, the putting-out system in handcraft production was regarded as traditional and inefficient. In the context of Republican China, it was believed that this kind of...

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This book explores the development of the putting-out system in hand-woven textile industries in late Qing Dynasty and China’s Republican Period. In classic sociology theory, the putting-out system in handcraft production was regarded as traditional and inefficient. In the context of Republican China, it was believed that this kind of household-based production system would have totally failed in competition with the factory system of machinery production. However, this book exhibits the historical fact that the putting-out system was booming in handcraft textile production and subsequently provides an explanation to this phenomenon from the perspectives of institutional analysis and quantitative modeling. With rich county-level data and comprehensive analysis, this book is valuable for both researchers, academics and students in economics and social history studies.