"In this book Peer Vries is the first scholar to provide an extensive test of the claim that industrialization in East … Asia, in particular in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and World War Two, would have been much more labour intensive … than industrialization in the West. He does this by systematically comparing the role and importance of labour and capital …

Cross-cultural psychologists have mostly contrasted East Asia with the West. However, this study shows that there are …