The description for this book; Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation; will be forthcoming.
#1209292 in Books Princeton University Press 1992-06-03 1992-06-23Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .58 x 6.00l; .72 #File Name: 0691000352232 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy William RoachGood0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An Outstanding Historical BookBy Susan Marie MolloyWomen and girls in Japan's Meiji Era were an essential human resource that performed an intensely significant role in Japan's progress from a somewhat feudalist society to a modern industrial nation. The author provides a clear; logical; and emotional perspective of the Meiji thread factory women from 1870 to 1912. In ten neat; compartmentalized chapters interspersed with tables of statistics; samples of contracts; and with original words of the women; Tsurumi provides an orderly accounting of the various stages in which the women moved from the traditional women's work of the preÂ-Meiji Era; to their new positions in the Meiji silk-reeling and cotton-spinning mills; and to their brutal exploitation in those modern industries. She carefully depicts how these kojo actually were performing a dual role by supporting their tenant-farming families and supporting their government in the move towards modern nation-building and industrialization. Tsurumi finalized her account in a concluding chapter with a thoughtful comparison between women in the thread mills and women in weaving and prostitution.
