Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West -- The land tax in the Tokugawa period -- Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan -- Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan -- Japan's aristocratic revolution -- The discontented -- "Merit" as ideology in the Tokugawa period -- Ōkura Nagatsune and the technologists -- Peasant time and factory time in Japan -- The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920
