Managing Women

Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan

By: Elyssa Faison

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Hardcover | 23 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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. Managing Women focuses on Japan's interwar textile industry, examining how factory managers, social reformers, and the state created visions of a specifically Japanese femininity. Faison 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 a strategy for containing union activities and strikes. In an integrated analysis of gender ideology and ideologies of nationalism and ethnicity, Faison shows how this discourse on women's wage work both produced and reflected anxieties about women's social roles in modern Japan.

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"Faison has given us much food for thought on how we can continue to view her as important within Japanese social, economic, and gender history." -- Helen Macnaughtan Journal Of Japanese Studies "An important contribution in the field of labour history." -- Angela Chin Canadian Journal Of History

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women or Workers?
From Home Work to Corporate Paternalism: Women's Work in Japan's Early Industrial Age
Keeping "Idle Youngsters" Out of Trouble: Japan's 1929 Abolition of Night Work and the Problem of Free Time
Cultivation Groups and the Japanese Factory: Producing Workers, Gendering Subjects
Sex, Strikes, and Solidarity: TQyQ Muslin and the Labor Unrest of 1930
Colonial Labor: The Disciplinary Power of Ethnicity Epilogue: Managing Women in Wartime and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Managing Women

Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan

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