Search Results: Japan from Michael Diesman

Art Research Foundation, 1997. Not Indicated. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Color Plates.

Tokyo: Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, 1984. Most text in Japanese.. Not Indicated. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by b/w Photos.

Japan: The Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, 1981. Text in English & Japanese.. Not Indicated. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by b/w Plates.

Shizouka Prefectual Museum of Art, 1986. Presumed First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. Color Plates. Corners Bumped, Otherwise In Very Nice Condition. Text In English & Japanese.

Princeton University Press, 1974. Price clipped jacket. Some sunning on spine, otherwise in very nice condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. In this analysis of lower-class life in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868), the author portrays the emergence of an urban proletariat during a time of extraordinary economic change. With the rapid increase in urban construction and commercial activity, hired labourers came to replace the traditional workers, while in households, contracted servants supplanted hereditary workers. The text demonstrates that in the same way that products previously restricted to use by the elite became commodities for mass consumption, labour power itself became a commodity: class relations were gradually mediated by money, and employers and employees dealt with each other on increasingly impersonal, if not hostile, terms. Attempting to control such trends, government officials regulated workers by fixing employment seasons, limiting job tenures, setting wages, and establishing labour exchanges, licensing systems and workhouses.… Read More

Japan: Setsu Gatodo Co., 1985. Presumed First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Tipped in Color Plates. Some Very Light Sunning On Cover, Otherwise In Nice Condition. Text In English & Japanese.