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Fabricating consumers [[electronic resource] ] : the sewing machine in modern Japan / / Andrew Gordon



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Autore: Gordon Andrew <1952-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fabricating consumers [[electronic resource] ] : the sewing machine in modern Japan / / Andrew Gordon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
Disciplina: 338.7/64620440952
Soggetto topico: Sewing-machine industry - United States - History - 20th century
Clothing trade - Japan - History - 20th century
Consumers - Japan - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: 19th 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
Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Singer in Japan -- pt. 2. Sewing modernity in war and peace.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Fabricating consumers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-10387-6
9786613520586
0-520-95031-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828601903321
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Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 19.