wage-earning women and male-dominated unions in postwar Japan /
First Statement of Responsibility
Christopher Gerteis
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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Distributed by Harvard University Press,
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2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 226 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
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Harvard East Asian monographs ;
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321
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Women and unions in occupied Japan -- The erotic and the vulgar -- Wage struggles and struggle politics -- Teachers and coal wives -- Family unions -- Federation wives
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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By showing how unions raised the wages of male workers in part by transforming working-class women into middle-class housewives, the author demonstrates that organized labour's discourse on womanhood prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighbourhood centred organizations that typified social movements
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Labor disputes-- Japan-- History
Labor movement-- Japan-- History
Sex discrimination against women-- Japan-- History