Japanese women working /
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. |
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Description: | xii, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Women -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 20th century. Women -- Employment. Japan. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1441661 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Janet Hunter
- 2. Redundancy utilized: the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan / Konosuke Odaka
- 3. One day at a time: work and domestic activities of urban lower-class women in early twentieth-century Japan / Kathleen Uno
- 4. Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan / Janet Hunter
- 5. Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry / Regine Mathias
- 6. Equality versus difference: the Japanese debate over 'motherhood protection', 1915-50 / Barbara Molony
- 7. Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918-88 / Eiko Shinotsuka
- 8. Women as bosses: perceptions of the ama and their work / D. P. Martinez
- 9. Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women: changing company practice / Alice Lam
- 10. The role of the professional housewife / Joy Hendry.