Discovering Women's Voices : : The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words.

• Superior document: The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives
• Author: Schaal, Sandra.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (471 pages)

"At a time when concern with the exploitation of young women in the assembly plants of developing countries is still a major social issue for gender and development specialists, Discovering Women's Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words, offers a vivid account of the lives of women who formed modern Japan's 'reserve army' for textile mills. By analyzing work songs and oral testimonies of former silk-reeling operatives about their lives in the factory and in their native countryside, it challenges the long-standing assumption describing their history as merely exploitative, convincingly showing that factory life could appear as a window of opportunity or at least a lesser evil to workers born in rural underprivileged families.native countryside, it challenges the long-standing assumption describing their history as merely exploitative, convincingly showing that factory life could appear as a window of opportunity or at least a lesser evil to workers born in rural underprivileged families"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 1. A brief history of Japan's silk-reeling industry -- Part 2. In search of a lost time: the workers' thread-reeling songs -- Part 3. Interviews of former female operatives.