Gender And Labour In Korea And Japan

Author : Ruth Barraclough,Elyssa Faison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135219819

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Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan by Ruth Barraclough,Elyssa Faison Pdf

Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying industrial and sexual labour together, the book opens up a range of key questions: In what economy do we place the labour of the former "comfort women"? Why have sex workers not been part of the labour movements of Korea and Japan? Why is it difficult to be "working-class" and "feminine"? What sort of labour hierarchies operate in hostess clubs? How do financial crises translate into gender crises? This book explores how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities and traces the ways in which sexual and labour relations have shaped the cultures of contemporary Japan and Korea. It addresses important historical episodes such as the Japanese colonial industrialisation of Korea, wartime labour mobilisation, women engaged in forced sex work for the Japanese army throughout the Asian continent, and issues of ethnicity and sex in the contemporary workplace. The case studies provide specific examples of the way gender and work have operated across a variety of contexts, including Korean shipyard unions, Japanese hostess clubs, and the autobiographical literature of Korean factory girls. Overall, this book provides a compelling account of the entanglement of sexual and industrial labour throughout the twentieth century, and shows clearly how ideas about gender have contributed in fundamental ways to conceptions of class and worker identities.

Author : Theodore Jun Yoo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520283817

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The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea by Theodore Jun Yoo Pdf

This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of the colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them. While some Korean women conformed to the dictates of colonial hegemony, others took deliberate pains to distinguish between what was "modern" (e.g., Western outfits) and thus legitimate, and what was "Japanese," and thus illegitimate. Yoo argues that what made the experience of these women unique was the dual confrontation with modernity itself and with Japan as a colonial power.

Author : Ruth Barraclough,Elyssa Faison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135219826

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Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan by Ruth Barraclough,Elyssa Faison Pdf

This book explores gender, labour and class in Korea and Japan, both during the twentieth century and today. It shows how sexuality is inscribed in working-class identities, demonstrating that sexual and labor relations have been crucial factors in shaping the cultures of industrialization in both Japan and Korea.

Author : Joyce Gelb
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439900963

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Women Of Japan & Korea by Joyce Gelb Pdf

Original research on the changing roles of women in Japan and Korea.

Author : Atsuko Suzuki
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1876843632

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Gender and Career in Japan by Atsuko Suzuki Pdf

This volume probes the nature and ramifications of changing gender norms in Japan from a multidisciplinary perspective incorporating sociology, social psychology and economics.

Author : Hyoung Cho,Pil-wha Chang
Publisher : Ewha Womans University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sexual division of labor
ISBN : 8973000063

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Gender Division of Labor in Korea by Hyoung Cho,Pil-wha Chang Pdf

Author : Swee-Lin Ho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429589119

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Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan by Swee-Lin Ho Pdf

This book, based on extensive original research, presents a detailed analysis of the varying opportunities and challenges experienced by Japanese women with professional careers, an important category of the population in Japan, whose lives remain little known. It addresses many key issues, including the problems of flexible work in an increasingly neoliberal environment; the pervasiveness of precarious work conditions in gendered managerial employment; the state’s neglect in transforming antiquated labour laws and in combating abusive corporate practices; the implications of dysfunctional employee-employer relations and those among co-workers; media representations as barometers of resistant social norms; the ambivalent effects of work related drinking practices; and the lack of collective representation due to ineffective labour unions. Overall, the book presents the disheartening realities of conflicts and ambivalence experienced by many women managers in contemporary Japan.

Author : Pi-chun Hsu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0549843140

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Gender Inequality and the Division of Household Labor: Comparisons Among China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan by Pi-chun Hsu Pdf

This dissertation compares and explains the gender division of household labor in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. I employed two sources of survey data, the 1997 East Asia Social Survey and the 2002 Family and Changing Gender Roles III of the International Social Survey Program. In addition, I conducted in-depth interviews with married men and women from the four countries.

Author : M. Murayama
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230524026

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Gender and Development by M. Murayama Pdf

Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues. By examining Japanese experiences related to gender, the authors seek insights relevant to the current developing countries. Simultaneously, the book points out the importance for Japanese society to draw lessons from the creativity and activism of women in developing countries.

Author : Beverley Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134292912

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Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce by Beverley Bishop Pdf

Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women. It examines the effect of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan and describes the actions women are taking individually and collectively to campaign for change in their working environment and the laws and practices regulating it.

Author : Hwasook Nam
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501758287

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Women in the Sky by Hwasook Nam Pdf

Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor movement and in the larger society. It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women commanded the attention of the wider public, including the early-1930s rubber shoe workers' general strike in Pyongyang, the early-1950s textile workers' struggle in South Korea, the 1970s democratic union movement led by female factory workers, and women workers' activism against neoliberal restructuring in recent decades. Hwasook Nam asks why women workers in South Korea have been relegated to the periphery in activist and mainstream narratives despite a century of persistent militant struggle and indisputable contributions to the labor movement and successful democracy movement. Women in the Sky opens and closes with stories of high-altitude sit-ins—a phenomenon unique to South Korea—beginning with the rubber shoe worker Kang Churyong's sit-in in 1931 and ending with numerous others in today's South Korean labor movement, including that of Kim Jin-Sook. In Women in the Sky, Nam seeks to understand and rectify the vast gap between the crucial roles women industrial workers played in the process of Korea's modernization and their relative invisibility as key players in social and historical narratives. By using gender and class as analytical categories, Nam presents a comprehensive study and rethinking of the twentieth-century nation-building history of Korea through the lens of female industrial worker activism.

Author : Joyce Gelb,Marian Lief Palley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746470552

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Women of Japan and Korea by Joyce Gelb,Marian Lief Palley Pdf

This collection presents new research on the changing roles of women in Japan and Korea. At a time when women in these two countries are becoming more politically and socially prominent, these essays provide insight into the clashes that have arisen between tradition and change. The contributors compare similarities and differences in the two cultures, considering family life, education, health care, work, reproductive and legal rights, and political participation, including the rise of women's movements in Asia and the battle against sexism and gender stereotyping. Essays written by Japanese and Korean women, leading social scientists and practitioners, illuminate the current political, economic, and social status of women in Japan and Korea.

Author : Mijeong Lee,Mi-jŏng Yi
Publisher : 서울대학교출판부
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Married women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029306003

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Women's Education, Work, and Marriage in Korea by Mijeong Lee,Mi-jŏng Yi Pdf

Author : Kaye Broadbent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136133466

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Women's Employment in Japan by Kaye Broadbent Pdf

The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.

Author : C. Sarah Soh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226768045

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The Comfort Women by C. Sarah Soh Pdf

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to consign the episode to a war-torn past. In this revelatory study, C. Sarah Soh provocatively disputes this master narrative. Soh reveals that the forces of Japanese colonialism and Korean patriarchy together shaped the fate of Korean comfort women—a double bind made strikingly apparent in the cases of women cast into sexual slavery after fleeing abuse at home. Other victims were press-ganged into prostitution, sometimes with the help of Korean procurers. Drawing on historical research and interviews with survivors, Soh tells the stories of these women from girlhood through their subjugation and beyond to their efforts to overcome the traumas of their past. Finally, Soh examines the array of factors— from South Korean nationalist politics to the aims of the international women’s human rights movement—that have contributed to the incomplete view of the tragedy that still dominates today.