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This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research of labour history and the rise of capitalism in China through its examination of living conditions, working conditions, and wages.

Handicraft industries --- Artisans --- Handicraft --- Crafts (Handicrafts) --- Handcraft --- Occupations --- Decorative arts --- Manual training --- Sloyd --- Artizans --- Craftsmen --- Craftspeople --- Craftspersons --- Skilled labor --- Cottage industries --- History. --- Government policy --- Labor policy --- Printing --- Shipbuilding --- China --- Civilization --- Naval construction --- Ship-building --- Ships --- Boatbuilding --- Naval architecture --- Shipyards --- Labor --- State and labor --- Economic policy --- Design and construction --- Craft history --- socioeconomic history --- Qing administration --- guilds

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Though fighting is clearly hard work, historians have not paid much attention to warfare and military service as forms of labor. This collection does just that, bringing together the usually disparate fields of military and labor history. The contributors - including Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett, and Gilles Veinstein - undertake the first systematic comparative analysis of military labor across Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East, and Asia. In doing so, they explore the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last five hundred years.

Recruiting and enlistment --- Armed Forces -- Vocational guidance -- History. --- Recruiting and enlistment -- History. --- Military. --- Recruiting and enlistment. --- Enlistment --- Military recruiting --- Re-enlistment --- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. --- Military historiography --- Bounties, Military --- Armed Forces --- Armed Services --- Military, The --- History. --- Vocational guidance --- Military art and science --- Disarmament --- Armies --- Neutrality --- Europe --- Vocational guidance. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Military history. --- History --- Personnel management --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- Naval history --- comparative history europe, asia, middle east --- military recruitment --- military employment