Discovering Women's Voices: The Lives of Modern Japanese Silk Mill Workers in Their Own Words

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-46442-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 910 g

Reihe: The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaal, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Textilindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Gunnar Harðarson and Karl G. Johansson

PART 1

Educational and Cultural Context

1 Canon, Dominican and Brother

The Life and Times of Jón Halldórsson in Bergen

Christian Etheridge

2 Bishop Jón Halldórsson and Clerical Culture in 14th-Century Iceland

Viðar Pálsson

PART 2

Dominican Exempla and Saga Literature

3 Bishop Jón Halldórsson and 14th- Century Innovations in Saga Narrative

The Case of Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana

Gottskálk Jensson

4 Holy Ministry in Old Norse ævintýri

Hjalti Snær Ægisson

5 Clári saga and Its Continental Siblings
A Comparative Literary Approach to an Old Problem

Védís Ragnheiðardóttir

PART 3

Manuscripts and Illuminations

6 Jón Halldórsson and Law Manuscripts of Western Iceland c. 1320–40

Stefan Drechsler

7 AM 657 a–b 4° 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 Þorlákr

Gisela Attinger

PART 5

Manuscript Practice and Multiple Careers

10 Elucidating Charter Practice and Administrative Literacy in Four Works by Einarr Hafliðason

Embla Aae

11 Music and Manuscripts in Skálholt and Þingeyrar

Gunnar Harðarson

Appendix 1: The Account of Bishop Jón Halldórsson (Jón’s þáttr)

Appendix 2: Bishop Hákon of Bergen to Bishop Jón of Skálholt

Appendix 3: The Booklist of Bishop Árni Sigurðsson

Appendix 4: Contents of am 671 4° (by Stefan Drechsler)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Schaal, Ph.D. (2006, University of Kyoto), is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Strasbourg. She has produced several works on modern Japan and is co-editor of Educations sentimentales en contextes orientaux (2018).