Discovering women's voices : the lives of modern Japanese silk mill workers in their own words
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Discovering women's voices : the lives of modern Japanese silk mill workers in their own words
（The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives / edited by Ochiai Emiko, v. 14）
Brill, c2022
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「女工哀史」を再考する : 失われた女性の声を求めて
"Jokō aishi" o saikō suru : ushinawareta josei no koe o motomete
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-449) and index
Contents of Works
- Part 1. A brief history of Japan's silk-reeling industry
- Part 2. In search of a lost time: the workers' thread-reeling songs
- Part 3. Interviews of former female operatives
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At a time when concern with the exploitation of young women in the assembly plants of developing countries is still a major social issue for gender and development specialists, Discovering Women's Voices. The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words, offers a vivid account of the lives of women who formed modern Japan's 'reserve army' for textile mills.
By analyzing works songs and oral testimonies of former silk-reeling operatives about their lives in the factory and in their native countryside, it challenges the long-standing assumption describing their history as merely exploitative, convincingly showing that factory life could appear as a window of opportunity or at least a lesser evil to workers born in rural underprivileged families.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Gunnar Hardarson and Karl G. Johansson
PART 1
Educational and Cultural Context
1 Canon, Dominican and Brother
The Life and Times of Jon Halldorsson in Bergen
Christian Etheridge
2 Bishop Jon Halldorsson and Clerical Culture in 14th-Century Iceland
Vidar Palsson
PART 2
Dominican Exempla and Saga Literature
3 Bishop Jon Halldorsson and 14th- Century Innovations in Saga Narrative
The Case of Egils saga einhenda ok Asmundar berserkjabana
Gottskalk Jensson
4 Holy Ministry in Old Norse aevintyri
Hjalti Snaer AEgisson
5 Clari saga and Its Continental Siblings
A Comparative Literary Approach to an Old Problem
Vedis Ragnheidardottir
PART 3
Manuscripts and Illuminations
6 Jon Halldorsson and Law Manuscripts of Western Iceland c. 1320-40
Stefan Drechsler
7 AM 657 a-b 4 Degrees and the Mouvance of Medieval Texts
Roles and Functions in the Transmission of Texts in a Manuscript Culture
Karl G. Johansson
PART 4
Music and Liturgy
8 Liturgical Change and Liturgical Plurality in the Province of Nidaros
New Light on the Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae
Astrid Marner
9 Some Reflections on the Liturgy for St THorlakr
Gisela Attinger
PART 5
Manuscript Practice and Multiple Careers
10 Elucidating Charter Practice and Administrative Literacy in Four Works by Einarr Haflidason
Embla Aae
11 Music and Manuscripts in Skalholt and THingeyrar
Gunnar Hardarson
Appendix 1: The Account of Bishop Jon Halldorsson (Jon's thattr)
Appendix 2: Bishop Hakon of Bergen to Bishop Jon of Skalholt
Appendix 3: The Booklist of Bishop Arni Sigurdsson
Appendix 4: Contents of am 671 4 Degrees (by Stefan Drechsler)
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
