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RURAL HOUSEHOLDS' PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND SOCIAL CHANGES: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ENGLAND DURING INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE YANGZI DELTA IN MODERN TIMES
Author(s) -
GUO AIMIN
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2011.00572.x
Subject(s) - industrialisation , peasant , economics , production (economics) , scale (ratio) , agricultural economics , delta , agriculture , social change , economic growth , economy , development economics , geography , market economy , cartography , archaeology , aerospace engineering , engineering , macroeconomics
The growth of rural households' production ability is the key factor in the transformation from a traditional society based on a small‐scale peasant economy to a non‐agricultural dominated society based mainly on social production and trading on a large scale. From this perspective, this article examines England and the Yangzi Delta, both at one stage considered the most developed districts in their own countries, to investigate how England accomplished social change during the period of industrialization and why the Yangzi Delta failed to industrialize in modern times.