Discovering Women’s Voices: The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words
Discovering Women’s Voices: The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words
At a time when concern with the exploitation of young women in the assembly plants of developing countries is still a major social issue for gender and development specialists, <i>Discovering Women's Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words</i>, offers a vivid account of the lives of women who formed modern Japan’s ‘reserve army’ for textile mills.
By analyzing works songs and oral testimonies of former silk-reeling operatives about their lives in the factory and in their native countryside, it challenges the long-standing assumption describing their history as merely exploitative, convincingly showing that factory life could appear as a window of opportunity or at least a lesser evil to workers born in rural underprivileged families
By analyzing works songs and oral testimonies of former silk-reeling operatives about their lives in the factory and in their native countryside, it challenges the long-standing assumption describing their history as merely exploitative, convincingly showing that factory life could appear as a window of opportunity or at least a lesser evil to workers born in rural underprivileged families
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Publisher
BRILL
ISBN
9789004464421
Publication date
1 Jan 2022 – 30 Nov 2022
Specialisation
Social Sciences
Theme
Society
Gender and Identity
Economy
Region
Japan