Managing women
Subtitle: disciplining labor in modern Japan
By: Elyssa Faison.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780520252967
Subjects: Women textile workers -- Japan -- History.; Personnel management -- Japan -- History.; Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Women or workers?; title: From home work to corporate paternalism: women's work in Japan's early industrial age; title: Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: Japan's 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time; title: Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects; title: Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the labor unrest of 1930; title: Colonial labor and the disciplinary power of ethnicity; title: Epilogue: Managing women in wartime and beyond.