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Since a peasant family (or household) was the basic unit of production in agriculture and the rural economy in pre-modern Jiangnan and the major labour force in the family consists of a man and a woman, we will first make a close study of the problem of labour productivity of each and then discuss the problem of labour productivity of the family as a whole. Before this we will discuss labour productivity in general in pre-modern Jiangnan.
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Li, B. (1998). The Rise in Labour Productivity. In: Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620–1850. Studies on the Chinese Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11185-5_8
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