Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Women or workers? -- From home work to corporate paternalism: women's work in Japan's early industrial age -- Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: Japan's 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time -- Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects -- Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the labor unrest of 1930 -- Colonial labor and the disciplinary power of ethnicity -- Epilogue: Managing women in wartime and beyond. |
Summary |
'Managing Women' explores the creation of a specifically Japanese femininity in the early 20th century, as the state industrialists & social reformers all urged young women to seek employment in booming textile industries. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women textile workers -- Japan -- History.
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Women textile workers. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Personnel management -- Japan -- History.
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Personnel management. |
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Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management. |
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Women -- Employment. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Managing women Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520252967 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2007004263 |
ISBN |
9780520934184 ebook |
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0520934180 |
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9780520252967 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520252969 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781435611467 (electronic book) |
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1435611462 (electronic book) |
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