{"product_id":"labour-intensive-industrialization-in-global-history-gareth-austin-9780415455527","title":"Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take for a further diffusion of industrialization, which might respond to the rising expectations of living standards without catastrophic environmental degradation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gareth Austin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415455529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415455527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Gareth Austin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064922157311,"sku":"9780415455527","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebb9d5e6-6d58-4486-878d-7675b8f35330.jpg?v=1768671939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/labour-intensive-industrialization-in-global-history-gareth-austin-9780415455527","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}