Managing Women - Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan

Zusatztext "An important contribution in the field of labour history." Informationen zum Autor Elyssa Faison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext " Managing Women is an important work, filled with fascinating description, and accessible to a broad audience. I expect this to become a widely known and much cited book."—Mark Metzler, author of Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan Zusammenfassung Focuses on Japan's interwar textile industry, where female factory workers were constructed as "women" rather than as "workers". This work gives an analysis of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, showing how this discourse on women's wage work produced and reflected anxieties about women's social roles in modern Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Women or Workers? 1. From Home Work to Corporate Paternalism: Women's Work in Japan's Early Industrial Age 2. Keeping "Idle Youngsters" Out of Trouble: Japan's 1929 Abolition of Night Work and the Problem of Free Time 3. Cultivation Groups and the Japanese Factory: Producing Workers! Gendering Subjects 4. Sex! Strikes! and Solidarity: TQyQ Muslin and the Labor Unrest of 1930 5. Colonial Labor: The Disciplinary Power of Ethnicity Epilogue: Managing Women in Wartime and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Elyssa Faison
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2007
• EAN: 9780520252967
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25296-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General