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Tsurumi E. Patricia <1938-2016, > |
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Factory girls : women in the thread mills of Meiji Japan / / E. Patricia Tsurumi |
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Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1990 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p. ) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women textile workers - History - Japan |
Silk industry - Employees - History - Japan |
Cotton trade - Employees - History - Japan |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. The Background -- 2. Modern Beginnings: Reeling and Spinning -- 3. Silk: Poor but Independent Reelers -- 4. Silk: Tightening the Screws -- 5. Silk: Working for the Nation? -- 6. Cotton: The Reserve Army -- 7. Cotton: Recruiting in the Hinterland -- 8. Cotton: Inside the Hateful Company Gates -- 9. Comparative Perspectives: Factory and Countryside -- 10. Alternatives: The Loom and the Brothel -- Conclusion |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families to continue paying high rents in the countryside. Tsurumi shows that through their experiences as Japan's first modern factory workers, these "factory girls" developed an identity that played a crucial role in the history of the Japanese working class. Much of this story is based on records the factory girls themselves left behind, including their songs. "It is a delight to receive a meticulous and comprehensive volume on the plight of women who pioneered [assembly plant] employment in Asia a century ago...."--L. L. Cornell, |
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