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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Hunter, Janet, 1948-
ISBN:0415061881 : $39.95
Notes:Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.