ANOTHER SPINNING INNOVATION: THE CASE OF THE RATTLING SPINDLE, GARABŌ, IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JAPANESE SPINNING INDUSTRY

Through the importation of the state‐of‐the‐art British spinning technology of the late nineteenth century, a new cotton spinning sector began to emerge in Meiji Japan during the 1870s and 1880s. This hectic technology transfer was accompanied by a remarkable domestic technological breakthrough that...

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Published in:Australian economic history review 2011-03, Vol.51 (1), p.22-45
Main Author: Choi, Eugene K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Cotton
Cotton industry
cotton spinning
Garabo
Garabō
Industrial development
Industrial equipment
Industrial revolution
Japan
Japan: Economic history
late industrialisation
Manufacturing
Meiji Japan
N65
N70
O14
Productivity
R11
regional economics
Spinning
Technological change
Technology transfer
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Summary:Through the importation of the state‐of‐the‐art British spinning technology of the late nineteenth century, a new cotton spinning sector began to emerge in Meiji Japan during the 1870s and 1880s. This hectic technology transfer was accompanied by a remarkable domestic technological breakthrough that enabled the local spinners to significantly increase productivity to meet the unprecedented pace of the soaring market demand. This paper examines a relatively neglected case of the rattling spindle, Garabō, which was a product of Japanese native industrial endowments in parallel with the development of the British‐style mills.
ISSN:0004-8992
1467-8446
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8446.2011.00323.x