Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising :
[Book]
the Textile Industry before the Pacific War.
London :
RoutledgeCurzon,
2003.
1 online resource (337 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-320) and index.
1. Introduction: Textile Workers and Japanese Industrialisation -- 2. The Rural Connection: Growth, Distribution and Gender -- 3. The Growth of the Mechanised Textile Industries in Prewar Japan -- 4. Rural Origins -- 5. The Making of Textile Workers -- 6. The Institutions of Wage Payment -- 7. Changing the Rules of the Game: the Role of the Government -- 8. Collusion and Collaboration: Collective Action by Employers and Employees -- 9. Textile Work, Families and Villages -- 10. A Summing Up.
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From the 1870s to the 1930s the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry and it had a predominantly female labour force. This book examines the institutions of the labour market during this period of economic development.