Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Premodern Economic Growth: Japan and the West 15
6. 2 The Land and Tax in the Tokugawa Period 50
7. 3 Farm Family By-Employments in Preindustrial Japan 71
8. 4 Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan 103
9. 5 Japan's Aristocratic Revolution 133
10. 6 The Discontented 148
11. 7 "Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period 156
12. 8 Okura Nagatsune and the Technologists 173
13. 9 Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan 199
14. 10 The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890-1920 236
15. Index 271