Fabricating consumers
Subtitle: the sewing machine in modern Japan
By: Andrew Gordon
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Asia: local studies/global themes
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780520267855
Subjects: Clothing trade; Sewing-machine industry; Singer Sewing Machine Company; Consumers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Singer in Japan; title: Meiji machines; title: The American way of selling; title: Selling and consuming modern life; title: Resisting yankee capitalism; title: Sewing modernity in war and peace; title: War machines at home; title: Mechanical phoenix; title: A nation of dressmakers.