Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan

by E. Patricia Tsurumi

Book Overview

Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families to continue paying high rents in the countryside. Tsurumi shows that through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000352
• ISBN13: 9780691000350
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"