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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gerteis, Christopher, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (250 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781684174942