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Book SynopsisFocuses 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.
Trade Review"Faison has given us much food for thought on how we can continue to view her as important within Japanese social, economic, and gender history." -- Helen Macnaughtan Journal Of Japanese Studies "An important contribution in the field of labour history." -- Angela Chin Canadian Journal Of History
Table of ContentsList 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
