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Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan

Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan

Hardcover

ManagementJapanese HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520252969
ISBN13: 9780520252967
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 23 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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