Cotton Industry

In the period from the 1880s to the 1930s, Japan and India both visually perceived a great increase in the utilization of machines in the textile industry. Both Japan and India had kindred recruitment strategies, but differed greatly in whom the workers were and their working conditions.

Document 1, 2, and 6 all show the increased utilization of machines in India and Japan. Document 1 demonstrates how India utilized more machines to make greater yarn and cloth amounts in 1914 as to 1884. The chart demonstrates how machine-spun yarn became of more greater amount as opposed to hand-spun yarn, as well as how the amount of machine-made cloth is expeditiously catching up to the amount of hand woven yarn, which shows how the utilization of machines is increasing. Document 6 verbalizes how hand-woven cloth makers can't compete with the machine-made cloth makers, and it's rapidly declining. This shows Indians step towards a more mechanized cloth industry. As an economist, the author of this document may be over-stating the increase of mechanization because he would know that machines could make more cloth and boost India's economy, which would make him pro-machine as an economist. Compared with India's cloth textiles, Document 2 shows that Japan is rapidly entering the textile market by its great increase in pounds of yarn made. This is due to the increased utilization of the machines in Japanese textile making, but since the chart groups both hand-spun and machine-spun together, a utilizable additional document would be a disunion of hand-spun and machine spun-yarn made to compare and accurately account the increase of mechanization in Japans textile industry.

Even though Japan and India were greatly alike in their increased utilization of machines in textile factories, documents 7, 8 and 10 show that the workers in these factories are different. Document 10 and 8 are both pictures of an Indian and a Japanese textile mill, document 10 shows all male workers, exhibiting that more men worked in Indian textile mills than women, however, document 8 shows a lot women with one or two men, exhibiting that Japan was contradictory to India and had more women workers than men. Document 7 shows that less than a quarter of Indian textile laborers were female and that over three fourths were women in Japan, proving that there was a direct contrast in laborers of Indian mills and Japan mills. The chart also shows how the percentage of Indian female workers decreased while the equal Japanese percentage somewhat increases. This shows the difference of workers between Indian and Japanese textile mills. Document 6 provides an indicted source concerning the high percentage of female workers in Japanese mills.

While the people that were recruited were different, the methods and places that the textile mills that were utilized in India and Japan was alike. Documents 4, 5, and 9 verbalize about how workers are recruited from peasant families. Document 5 tells about how the cheap workers originate from farming communities in japan. The person who leaves their family is no longer a financial burden on the family and allots the family a little