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Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising : the Textile Industry before the Pacific War.

Author: Janet Hunter
Publisher: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : English
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From the 1870s to the 1930s the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry and it had a predominantly female labour force. This book examines the institutions of the labour market during this period of economic development.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Janet Hunter
ISBN: 9780203634134 0203634136 0415297311 9780415297318
OCLC Number: 51315324
Description: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Contents: 1. Introduction: Textile Workers and Japanese Industrialisation --
2. The Rural Connection: Growth, Distribution and Gender --
3. The Growth of the Mechanised Textile Industries in Prewar Japan --
4. Rural Origins --
5. The Making of Textile Workers --
6. The Institutions of Wage Payment --
7. Changing the Rules of the Game: the Role of the Government --
8. Collusion and Collaboration: Collective Action by Employers and Employees --
9. Textile Work, Families and Villages --
10. A Summing Up.
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From the 1870s to the 1930s the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry and it had a predominantly female labour force. This book examines the institutions of the labour market during this period of economic development.

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