Managing women: disciplining labor in modern Japan
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Main Author: Faison, Elyssa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press c2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index
Introduction: Women or workers? -- From home work to corporate paternalism: women's work in Japan's early industrial age -- Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: Japan's 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time -- Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects -- Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the labor unrest of 1930 -- Colonial labor and the disciplinary power of ethnicity -- Epilogue: Managing women in wartime and beyond
'Managing Women' explores the creation of a specifically Japanese femininity in the early 20th century, as the state industrialists & social reformers all urged young women to seek employment in booming textile industries
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 227 p.)
ISBN:0520934180
1435611462
9780520934184
9781435611467

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