Labor Mobility in the Late Tokugawa Period

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  • 近世後期労働移動の一形態 : 攝津国花熊村の人口移動を中心として
  • 近世後期労働移動の一形態--摂津国花熊村の人口移動を中心として
  • キンセイ コウキ ロウドウ イドウ ノ 1ガタタイ セッツ コッカグマムラ ノ ジンコウ イドウ オ チュウシン ト シテ

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Abstract

There are many excellent studies on the population statistics in the Tokugawa period, but few on the movement of population in the period. The writer tries to investigate the social movement of population in this paper. Hanakuma village was located between rural area and urban center. This is favorable to his study. He shows some features of labor mobility induced by the demand in urban area and the supply in rural area. Firstly, the population moved from country to town step by step. Secondly, the adoption and the marriage were the principal forms of the movement throughout the period, but the movement in non-kinship form (e. g. migration, abscondence) appeared in some measure in the last days of the Shogunate. Thirdly, there proved to be the adoptive apprenticeship (i. e. to send out a boy to service in the adoptive form). Fourthly, there is a close correlation between the mobility and the holding. Framers under the subsistence level were on the move. Fifthly, the movement of population was made to maintain the family in the direct line. It is significant that most of these features are similar to the Ravenstein's law of migration. He said in his paper that the main factor of migration was the labor demand in the center of commerce and industry. The author concludes that in this district under the late Tokugawa regime there took place the movement of labor force which would occur universally in the Meiji period.

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  • SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY

    SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY 38 (6), 640-664,713-71, 1973

    THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

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