Coal Mining Women In Japan

Author : W. Donald Burton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317800422

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Coal-Mining Women in Japan by W. Donald Burton Pdf

In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930, collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan, however, mining women witnessed no significant changes in working practices over this period. The availability of the cheap and abundant labor of these women allowed the captains of the coal industry in Japan to avoid expensive investments in new machinery and sophisticated mining methods;, instead, they continued to intensely exploit workers and markets intensively, making substantial profits without the burdens of extensive mechanization. This unique book explores the lives of the thousands of women who labored underground in Japan’s coal mines in the years 1868 to 1930. It examines their working lives, their family lives, their aspirations, achievements and disappointments. Drawing heavily on interview material with the miners themselves, W. Donald Burton combines translations of their stories with features of Japanese society at the time and coal mining technology. In doing so, he presents a complex account of the women’s lives, as well as providing a keen insight intoon gender relations and the industrial and labor history of Japan. Coal Mining Women in Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender studies and industrial history.

Author : Tai Wei Lim,Naoko Shimazaki,Yoshihisa Godo,Yiru Lim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811372209

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Coal Mining Communities and Gentrification in Japan by Tai Wei Lim,Naoko Shimazaki,Yoshihisa Godo,Yiru Lim Pdf

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of approach in the field of energy studies of Japan, examining post-closure coal mining towns in Japan and their gentrification. It considers the impact of closures on the agricultural industry, the re-absorption of laid off coal miners into service and industrial sectors, and the gentrification of former coal mines into agricultural farms and communities. It also considers the historical process of gentrification in terms of origins, social history, continuity/discontinuity and cooperation/resistance. The historical background of coal mine closures analyses nostalgic recollection about mine closures and Sakubei's UNESCO drawings of life in the coal mines and other cultural materials related to coal energy and the mining industry in general in Japan.

Author : Martha Macintyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351871938

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Women Miners in Developing Countries by Martha Macintyre Pdf

Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the developing world as compared to the early European and American mines. The book shows that women are engaged in various kinds of mining and illustrates how gender and inequality are constructed and sustained in the mines, and also how ethnic identities intersect with those gendered identities.

Author : Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,Martha Macintyre
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754646505

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Women Miners in Developing Countries by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt,Martha Macintyre Pdf

Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining.Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific region, Latin America and Africa, this book makes visible the roles and contributions of women as miners. It also highlights the importance of engendering small and informal mining in the developing world as compared to the early European and American mines.

Author : Matthew Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521450096

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Undermining the Japanese Miracle by Matthew Allen Pdf

In effect, the people of Chikuho have been sacrificed for the development of Japan's overall economy. This book looks at some of the effects of economic rationalist policies: the neglect of the former coalminers by the government and the coal companies has created a situation whereby the region is poor and isolated, and the unemployment, crime and welfare dependence rates are high. There is little hope of economic recovery in this coalmining area.

Author : Masanori Nakamura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCSC:32106014035742

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Technology Change and Female Labour in Japan by Masanori Nakamura Pdf

Author : Janet Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134797134

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Japanese Women Working by Janet Hunter Pdf

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

Author : Nisaburo Murakushi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038530155

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Technology and Labour in Japanese Coal Mining by Nisaburo Murakushi Pdf

Author : Helen Macnaughtan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415328055

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Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle by Helen Macnaughtan Pdf

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.

Author : E. Patricia Tsurumi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400843305

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Factory Girls by E. Patricia Tsurumi Pdf

Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, Patricia Tsurumi vividly documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. While their skills and long hours created profits for factory owners that in turn benefited the state, the labor of these women and girls enabled their tenant farming families to continue paying high rents in the countryside. Tsurumi shows that through their experiences as Japan's first modern factory workers, these "factory girls" developed an identity that played a crucial role in the history of the Japanese working class. Much of this story is based on records the factory girls themselves left behind, including their songs. "It is a delight to receive a meticulous and comprehensive volume on the plight of women who pioneered [assembly plant] employment in Asia a century ago...."--L. L. Cornell, The Journal of Asian Studies "Tsurumi writes of these rural women with compassion and treats them as sentient, valuable individuals.... [Many] readers will find these pages informative and thought provoking."--Sally Ann Hastings, Monumenta Niponica

Author : Sidney Lewis Gulick
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9781465526489

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Working Women of Japan by Sidney Lewis Gulick Pdf

Author : Janet Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134432004

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Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy by Janet Hunter Pdf

During the period of industrialisation in Japan from the 1870s to the 1930s, the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry, and the country's major source of export earnings. It had a predominantly female labour force, drawn mainly from the agricultural population. This book examines the institutions of the labour market of this critical industry during this important period for Japanese economic development. Based on extensive original research, the book provides a wealth of detail, showing amongst other things the complexity of the labour market, the interdependence of the agricultural and manufacturing sectors, and the importance of gender. It argues that the labour market institutions which developed in this period had a profound effect on the labour market and labour relations in the postwar years.

Author : John Hinde
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840149

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When Coal Was King by John Hinde Pdf

The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island during the early twentieth century. The Ladysmith miners had a reputation for radicalism and militancy and engaged in bitter struggles for union recognition and economic justice, most notably the Great Strike of 1912-14. This strike, one of the longest and most violent labour disputes in Canadian history, marked a watershed in the history of the town and the coal industry.

Author : Khalehla Litschel
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525516764

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King Coal by Khalehla Litschel Pdf

King Coal presents the rich history of Alberta coal mining, and the people and culture that emerged out of the industry, from the 1870s through to the modern era. King Coal invites the reader to discover Alberta’s coal history, its triumphs and tragedies, and its legacy in the province today. Uniquely, the book’s carefully researched historical sources are augmented by a vision of the era imagined through a fictional account of the author’s coal mining ancestors, as well as a variety of poetry, song lyrics, archival and modern photographs, and appendices that contain maps, charts, and links to multiple museums and historic sites around the province. These features of the book complete a full portrait of miners and their families, presenting how they lived and worked, the innovations they created, the tragedies they endured, and the life cycles experienced in the towns where they lived—including those boom and bust towns that have disappeared from the Canadian landscape. Made to feel like insiders in a different time, readers will emerge from King Coal with an excellent view of the social side of coal mining in Alberta, a time in Canada’s history when Coal was King.

Author : Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520070172

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Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 by Gail Lee Bernstein Pdf

In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.