ch. 1. Varieties of industrialization -- ch. 2. The labor question -- ch. 3. Immigration -- ch. 4. Urbanization -- ch. 5. The West -- ch. 6. Environment -- ch. 7. Transportation -- ch. 8. The politics of industrialization -- ch. 9. Reform.

1. Introduction -- 2. Interlinking markets, relational contracts and economic transition -- 3. Markets, contracts and economic growth -- 4. Interlinked contracts and development : where do we stand? -- 5. Unraveling the Chinese miracle : a perspective of interlinked relational contracts -- 6....

1. The making and re-making of the imperial nexus of jute, 1840-1940 -- 2. The coming of the up-countrymen : labour conditions and class formation in the Bengal jute industry, 1875-1910 -- 3. The imperial nexus and the making of Juteopolis, 1875-1910 -- 4. Working class militancy and labor...

1. Growth and transformation during two centuries -- 2. The transformation of agriculture and early industrialisation, 1790-1850 -- 3. Railway construction and expanded industrialisation, 1850-1890 -- 4. The breakthrough of industrial society, 1890-1930 -- 5. The peak of industrial society,...

1. The characteristics of China's traditional economy / Man-houng Lin -- 2. The late Qing dynasty to the early Republic of China : a period of great institutional transformation / Kenneth S. Chan -- 3. The centrally planned command economy (1949-84) / Dwight H. Perkins -- 4. China's economic...