Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan Volume 19

by Andrew Gordon

Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520267850
• ISBN13: 9780520267855
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"