Women Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle 1st Edition by Helen Macnaughtan ISBN 1134335688 9781134335688
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ISBN 10: 1134335688
ISBN 13: 9781134335688
Author: Helen Macnaughtan
This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better known Japanese employment system which was applied to male employees. Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle describes and analyses the place of female workers in the cotton textile industry, which was a crucially important industry with a large workforce. In presenting detailed data on such key issues as recruitment systems, management practices and the working experience of the women involved, it demonstrates the importance for Japan’s postwar economy of harnessing female labour during these years.
Women Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle 1st Table of contents:
1 A historical legacy
Female labour and textiles in prewar Japan
The textile industry’s postwar transition
The importance of women in textiles
A note on methodology
2 Shaping the female labour market
Textile workers and the Occupation authorities
SCAP and recruitment
SCAP and dormitories
SCAP and wages and welfare
The impact of SCAP
Teething problems, unions and technology
The Ōmi Kenshi strike
The textile union and female workers
The shop-floor environment and technology
3 Recruiting women workers
The postwar recruitment environment
Recruitment of young female workers
The labour market for young females
The role of schools in recruitment
The role of recruiters and local labour offices
Regional and long-distance recruitment
Recruitment problems for the industry
Recruitment of older female workers
The labour market for older women
Methods of recruiting older women
The transition to ‘older’ female labour
4 Managing women workers
The development of labour management strategies
Labour management in historical perspective
Labour management in the postwar period
Managing young female workers through the dormitory system
Dormitories and the textiles workplace
Managing dormitories from above
Managing dormitories from within
Dormitories in transition
Finding alternative strategies for managing older female workers
Labour management strategy in transition
5 Educating and training women workers
Factory girls and schooling
Education, dormitories and the workplace
Development of the education system
The education system in operation
Evaluation of the education system
Women and workplace training
The nature of the job
Women and training
Women and promotion
6 Wages and welfare for women
Women and the wage system
Wage differentials
Allowances and retirement
Wages for older women
Nominal, comparative and real wage trends
Wage trends and the union
Welfare for women
Dormitories as welfare
The well-being of workers
Protective welfare for women
Evaluation of wages and welfare
Expenditure on welfare
Cost of living for women
Welfare for older women
7 Japanese female textile workers in context
The textile industry as an employer of women workers
The impact of textiles on the national labour market
The everyday lives of female textile operatives
Appendix Fieldwork interviews and survey
Fieldwork interviews
Interviews with female textile workers
Interviews and meetings with textile industry managers
The fieldwork survey
Survey content
Response to survey
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