Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan
Elyssa Faison
Abstract
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. This book focuses on Japan's interwar textile industry, examining how factory managers, social reformers, and the state created visions of a specifically Japanese femininity. The book 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 ... More
Keywords: Japan, modernization, Japanese women, factory, textile industry, Japanese femininity, female factory workers, labor-management practices, gender ideology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520252967 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520252967.001.0001 |
