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Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan
by E. Patricia Tsurumi
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr (1990-07)
ISBN: 069103138X
EAN: 9780691031385
Dewy Decimal #: 331.487700952
Hardcover: 232 pages
SKU: T070912-6299
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good + overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefitted the state, the labour of these women 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.
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