Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class

by Ruth Barraclough

Book Overview

Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying industrial and sexual labour together, the book opens up a range of key questions: In what economy do we place the labour of the former "comfort women"? Why...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415673585
• ISBN13: 9780415673587
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"