Title Factory girls : women in the thread mills of Meiji Japan / E. Patricia Tsurumi.

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Description	215 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index.
Contents	The Background -- Modern Beginnings: Reeling and Spinning -- Silk: Poor but Independent Reelers -- Silk: Tightening the Screws -- Silk: Working for the Nation? -- Cotton: The Reserve Army -- Cotton: Recruiting in the Hinterland -- Cotton: Inside the Hateful Company Gates -- Comparative Perspectives: Factory and Countryside -- Alternatives: The Loom and the Brothel.
Summary	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 their experiences as Japan's first modern factory workers, these "factory girls" developed an identity that played a crucial role in the history of the Japanese working class. Much of this story is based on records the factory girls themselves left behind, including their songs.
Subject	Women textile workers -- Japan -- History.
	Silk industry -- Japan -- Employees -- History.
	Cotton trade -- Employees -- Japan -- History.
	Industries -- Japan -- History.
	női munka -- Japán -- textilipar -- Meiji-korszak, 1868-1912.
	83.67 industry. (NL-LeOCL)077607333
	Cotton trade -- Employees. (OCoLC)fst00881085
	Industries. (OCoLC)fst00971852
	Silk industry -- Employees. (OCoLC)fst01118748
	Women textile workers. (OCoLC)fst01178623
	Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
	Textilindustrie (DE-588)4059618-7
	Arbeiterin (DE-588)4002587-1
	Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
	Japan (DE-588)4028495-5
	Zijdeïndustrie.
	Katoenindustrie.
	Vrouwenarbeid.
	Geschichte (1868-1911)
	Frau.
	Geschichte (1868-1912)
	Japan.
Indexed Term	Industries Personnel Working conditions History
	Japan
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	069103138X (alk. paper)
	9780691031385 (alk. paper)
	0691000352
	9780691000350

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