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Changing Labour Relations in Asia

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Labour in Southeast Asia
Local processes in a globalised world
Edited by Rebecca Elmhirst and Ratna Saptari

Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan
Mary Louise Nagata

Subcontract Labour in Asia (yet to be contracted)
Historical and contemporary perspectives
Edited by Jan Lucassen and Ratna Saptari

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Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan

Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan

1st Edition

By Mary Louise Nagata
November 01, 2012

Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital and smallest of the three great cities of the ...

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