TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schaal,Sandra
TI  - Discovering Women’s Voices: The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words 
T2  - The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives
SN  - 9789004464698
AV  - HD6073 
U1  - 331.4/87739 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Women silk industry workers
KW  - Japan
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Songs and music
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Sandra Schaal -- Copyright Page; Sandra Schaal -- Dedication; Sandra Schaal -- Notes on the Text; Sandra Schaal -- Introduction; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 1 A Brief History of Japan’s Silk-Reeling Industry; Sandra Schaal -- Introduction to Part 2; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 2 What Were the Thread-Reeling Songs?; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 3 Feelings about Going to the Mills; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 4 Feelings about Working Conditions; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 5 Life at the Silk Mills as Depicted in the Thread-Reeling Songs; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 6 How the Female Operatives Saw Themselves; Sandra Schaal -- Introduction to Part 3; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 7 Analyzing the Life Histories Used as the “Voices” of the Workers; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 8 Why They Left Home to Work in the Mills; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 9 Coping with Hard Labor Conditions; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 10 Recollections of Dormitory Life; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 11 Labor Disputes and Forms of Protest; Sandra Schaal -- Chapter 12 Representations of the Experiences of the Female Operatives; Sandra Schaal -- Conclusion; Sandra Schaal -- Appendix; Sandra Schaal -- Bibliography; Sandra Schaal -- Index of Persons; Sandra Schaal -- Index of Subjects; Sandra Schaal
N2  - 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 works 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464698
ER  -