04020nam 2201009 a 450 991078155880332120200520144314.01-280-10387-697866135205860-520-95031-310.1525/9780520950313(CKB)2550000000067367(EBL)785219(OCoLC)763156525(SSID)ssj0000585070(PQKBManifestationID)11398041(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585070(PQKBWorkID)10595088(PQKB)10852472(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083914(OCoLC)780449873(MdBmJHUP)muse30841(DE-B1597)520812(OCoLC)1066010257(DE-B1597)9780520950313(Au-PeEL)EBL785219(CaPaEBR)ebr10529560(CaONFJC)MIL352058(MiAaPQ)EBC785219(EXLCZ)99255000000006736720110520d2012 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrFabricating consumers[electronic resource] the sewing machine in modern Japan /Andrew Gordon1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20121 online resource (303 p.)Asia : local studies/global themes ;no. 19"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."0-520-26785-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Singer in Japan -- pt. 2. Sewing modernity in war and peace.Since its early days of mass production in the 1850's, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.Asia--local studies/global themes ;19.Sewing-machine industryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryClothing tradeJapanHistory20th centuryConsumersJapanHistory20th century19th century japan.19th century women.business infrastructure.company business profiles.consumerism history.corporate innovation.dress and textiles.east asia.fashion and clothing.female consumer.history of anthropology.history of capitalism.history of fashion.japan social history.japanese class structure.japanese females.japanese history.japanese role of women.japanese women.middle class.modern japan.sewing machine history.socioeconomic change.western dress.women in workplace.Sewing-machine industryHistoryClothing tradeHistoryConsumersHistory338.7/64620440952Gordon Andrew1952-1017492MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781558803321Fabricating consumers3719617UNINA