Japanese Women Working

An international group of historians, economists, anthropologists and management specialists examine policy towards women workers and their experinces over the course of this century in Japan.

Janet Hunter

List of figures, List of tables, Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Redundancy utilized: the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan, 3 One day at a time: work and domestic activities of urban lower-class women in early twentieth-century Japan, 4 Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan, 5 Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry, 6 Equality versus difference: the Japanese debate over 'motherhood protection', 1915-50, 7 Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918-88, 8 Women as bosses: perceptions of the ama and their work, 9 Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women: changing company practice, 10 The role of the professional housewife, Index