[Parution] « Discovering Women’s Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words »

Titre

Discovering Women’s Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words

Auteur de l’ouvrage

Sandra Schaal

Maison d’éditions

Brill

Date de publication

2022

Nombre de pages

472 p.

Présentation

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.

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