問題提起 (工業化段階における織物業と地主制)

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Textile manufacturing was the key industry in prewar Japan's economy, with weaving being an important branch of that industry. The study of textiles has so far been regared as an important one to identify at what stage the bakumatsu economy was, which in turn enables us to clarify the historical character of the Meiji Restoration as the starting point of modernization. However, it should be stressed, the study of the textile industry, especially weaving, is equally, or more, important to explore the mechanisms of development from 1890 onwards. Thus there are four problems we are concerned with in relation to the main subject here. The first is to analyze an organic relation between weaving activities and the landlord system in the rural sector. The second is to delineate changing circumstances of the weaving industry in relation to the supply of industrial motive power and producers' goods by the modern industrial sector under changing conditions of factor endowments and relative factor prices. Thirdly we need to know to what extent weavers succeeded in breaking through the control by merchant capitalists. Finally we shall turn to comparing Japan's rural industrialization with European proto-industrialization.
社会経済史学会の論文
1984-03-29