Books in the Changing Labour Relations in Asia series

Brings together current research on labour in Southeast Asia, offering theoretical insights and detailed empirical case-studies drawn from a variety of contexts.

Based on a collection of labor contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labor as they developed in the commercial enterprises of Tokugawa Japan. The urban focus is Kyoto, the cultural capital of the Tokugawa period, but the data comes from castle towns and rural villages in central Japan.