The work attitude and the job choices of the peasant and the factory worker in industrializing Japan : Evidence from the weaving industry

工业化前的日本是一个农民社会。因此，日本在农民社会的基础上进行了工业化。在此背景下，本研究以19世纪90 - 30年代的日本工业化为对象，调查农业发展对农民和工厂工人的工作态度和职业选择的影响。研究表明，随着农业的发展，农民的收入增加得越多，农民就越不需要把家庭成员送到工厂去。它还表明，由于农业发展，工厂经理无法招聘工人，如果不提高工资，就无法激励他们努力工作。

Pre-industrial Japan was a peasant society. Japan thus underwent industrialization on the basis of the peasant society. In this context, focusing on Japan's industrialization during the 1890-1930s, this project investigated how agricultural development had an impact on the work attitude and the job choices of the peasant and the factory worker. It reveals that the more the peasant's income increased due to agricultural growth, the less the peasant was required to send out its family members to factories. It also shows that as a result of agricultural development, the factory manager was unable to recruit workers and motivate them to work hard without offering higher wages.