Silk Weavers of Kyoto - Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry

Tamara K. Hareven (1937-2002) was Unidel Professor of Family Studies and History at the University of Delaware. She was founder and co-editor of The History of the Family: an International Quarterly, and her earlier books include Families, History, and Social Change (2000), Family Time and Industrial Time (1982; 1993), and the groundbreaking Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory City (1978; 1995). "Hareven vividly and persuasively describes the family-based silk weaving industry in Kyoto, which has been in the process of change since the end of the nineteenth century. She throws light on the innermost layer of Japanese human relations and therefore the Japanese way of feeling, thinking and evaluation, to an extent that few existing Japanese studies have attained."—Kiyomi Morioka, Chiba University, Japan Zusammenfassung The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation.

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• Authors: Tamara Hareven, Tamara K. Hareven, Tamara K Hareven
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2003
• EAN: 9780520228184
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22818-4
• No. of pages: 371
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Trade Unions, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology: family and relationships, Sociology: work and labour, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Social groups, communities and identities, Industrial arbitration and negotiation