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

• Autore: Gordon Andrew <1952->
• 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 genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• ISBN: 1-280-10387-6; 9786613520586; 0-520-95031-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457916203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 19.