Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan - Couverture rigide

Faison, Elyssa

 
9780520252967: Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520252969 ISBN 13 : 9780520252967
Editeur : University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

At the turn of the twentieth century, Japan embarked on a mission to modernize its society and industry. For the first time, young Japanese women were persuaded to leave their families and enter the factory. Managing Women focuses on Japan's interwar textile industry, examining how factory managers, social reformers, and the state created visions of a specifically Japanese femininity. Faison finds that female factory workers were constructed as "women" rather than as "workers" and that this womanly ideal was used to develop labor-management practices, inculcate moral and civic values, and develop a strategy for containing union activities and strikes. In an integrated analysis of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, Faison shows how this discourse on women's wage work both produced and reflected anxieties about women's social roles in modern Japan.

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À propos de l?auteur

Elyssa Faison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520252969
ISBN 13 
9780520252967
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
248
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Personne responsable
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