Gender struggles : wage-earning women and male-dominated unions in postwar Japan /
By showing how unions raised the wages of male workers in part by transforming working-class women into middle-class housewives, the author demonstrates that organized labour's discourse on womanhood prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighbourhood centred organizations...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2009.
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Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
321. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | By showing how unions raised the wages of male workers in part by transforming working-class women into middle-class housewives, the author demonstrates that organized labour's discourse on womanhood prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighbourhood centred organizations that typified social movements. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781684174942 1684174945 |