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Managing women : disciplining labor in modern Japan /

'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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faison, Elyssa, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.