Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan

by E. Patricia Tsurumi

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Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families to continue paying high rents in the countryside. Tsurumi shows that through...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691000352

ISBN13:9780691000350

Release Date:June 1992

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Asia Business & Finance Business & Investing Economics Gender Studies History Japan Labor & Industrial Relations Political Science Politics & Government

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