Japanese women working / / edited by Janet Hunter

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.40952
• Soggetto topico: Sexual division of labor - Japan - History - 20th century; Women - Employment - Japan - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: HunterJanet
• Note generali: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Redundancy utilized: the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan1; Chapter 3 One day at a time:work and domestic activities of urban lowerclass women in early twentiethcentury Japan; Chapter 4 Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan; Chapter 5 Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry; Chapter 6 Equality versus difference: the Japanese debate over 'motherhood protection', 1915–50 ; Chapter 7 Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918–88Chapter 8 Women as bosses: perceptions of the ama and their work; Chapter 9 Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women: changing company practice; Chapter 10 The role of the professional housewife; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An international group of historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists examine policy towards women workers and their experinces over the course of this century in Japan.
• Titolo autorizzato: Japanese women working
• ISBN: 1-134-79712-5; 1-138-17821-7; 1-134-79713-3; 1-280-31909-7; 0-203-43393-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910170995603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II