Coal-Mining Women in Japan

This unique book explores the lives of the thousands of women who labored in Japan's coal mines in the years 1868 to 1930.

W. Donald Burton has taught in Canada at the University of British Columbia, St. Mary's University, McGill University and the Open University of British Columbia.

Introduction 1. Background 2. Work and Wages 3. Working Conditions 4. Their Life Trajectory 5. The Daily Routine 6. Solidarity, Divisions, Bondage and Resistance 7. Common Seams, Common Attitudes 8. Afterword