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" Japanese women working / "
edited by Janet Hunter.
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BL
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1040386
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b794756
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Japanese women working /\ edited by Janet Hunter.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1993.
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xii, 245 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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0203433939
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: 0415061881
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: 0415127912
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: 9780203433935
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: 9780415061889
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: 9780415127912
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Redundancy utilized : the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan / Kōnosuke Odaka -- One day at a time : work and domestic activities of urban lower-class women in early twentieth-century Japan / Kathleen Uno -- Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan / Janet Hunter -- Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry / Regine Mathias -- Equality versus difference : the Japanese debate over 'motherhood protection', 1915-50 / Barbara Molony -- Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918-88 / Eiko Shinotsuka -- Women as bosses : perceptions of the ama and their work / D.P. Martinez -- Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women : changing company practice / Alice Lam -- The role of the professional housewife / Joy Hendry.
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| Abstract
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Japanese Women Working provides a wide range of perspectives on the study of working women in Japan over the last century. Contributors address issues of state policy towards and management of women workers, and also provide accounts of the experiences of particular groups of workers: domestic servants, hospital care assistants, textile workers, miners, homeworkers, and 'professional' housewives. The book highlights many of the issues and decisions that have faced working women in Japan, and calls into question the accuracy of the prevailing domestic stereotype of Japanese women. Essays included span a period of rapid economic change, and look at Japan both as a developing and as an industrialized country, indicating the importance of the overall economic environment, as well as cultural factors, in determining women's position in the labour market. Bringing together contributions by historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists from Europe, Japan and the United States, the book underlines the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the study of women working. It is a major addition to the existing English language literature on Japanese women, and will make it easier for non-specialists to inform themselves about a critical area of Japanese social and economic development.
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Women-- Employment-- Japan-- History-- 20th century.
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Femmes-- Travail-- Japon-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
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Femmes-- Travail-- Japon-- 20e siècle.
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Femmes-- Travail-- Japon.
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Women-- Employment-- Japan-- History-- 20th century.
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Women-- Employment.
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Werkende vrouwen.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.4/0952
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HD6197.J355 1993
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15.75bcl
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85.65bcl
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| Added Entry
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Hunter, Janet,1948-
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