Managing women : disciplining labor in modern Japan / Elyssa Faison.

Author/creator Faison, Elyssa, 1965-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxiv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents 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: Tōyō Muslin and the labor unrest of 1930 -- Colonial labor and the disciplinary power of ethnicity -- Epilogue: Managing women in wartime and beyond.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-220) and index.
LCCN 2007004263
ISBN9780520252967 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520252969 (cloth : alk. paper)