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Factory Girls : Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan by E Patricia Tsurumi; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 factor
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- Author
- E Patricia Tsurumi; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691000350
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Management, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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