明治末期における織物マニュファクチャ
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In accordance with the post-war advancement of the study of the weaving industry at the end of the Tokugawa era, the view that the putting-out system was dominant at that time has entered the limelight, in place of the one that the "manufacture," in the terminology of Marxism, held sway. The new view is grounded on the fact that the weaving process was carried out on a small scale in those days and that most of the labourers were apprentices for terms of many years. The author, who has doubts about this view, theoretically and positively, proposes to examine it, by considering the weaving industry in Ashikaga and district, at the end of the Meiji era. The results of his reseach may be summarized as follows. Firstly, even in the end of the Meiji era, only preparing and finishing processes were done in the majority of both mills employing over ten workers and those employing from five to nine, and the weaving process was done outside. Secondly, though apprentices for terms of both long and short periods as well as day labourerers were employed in the "manufactures," the main body was composed of "denshu-kojo" female apprentices for terms of long years. On the other hand, the labourers employed for a term of a year formed the overwhelming majority among those who supplied the labour under the putting-out system. This difference was caused by the qualitative difference between labouring processes of two systems. In conclusion, it must be premature to make a generalization that Japan was not in the stage of "manufacture," at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, in view of the facts that the author found in "manufactures" in the north Kanto area, just before the factory period.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1963-08-25