Japanese Women Working (Paperback, Revised)

List of figures, List of tables, Notes on contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Redundancy utilized: the economics of female domestic servants in pre-war Japan, 3 One day at a time: work and domestic activities of urban lower-class women in early twentieth-century Japan, 4 Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan, 5 Female labour in the Japanese coal-mining industry, 6 Equality versus difference: the Japanese debate over ‘motherhood protection’, 1915?50, 7 Japanese care assistants in hospitals, 1918?88, 8 Women as bosses: perceptions of the ama and their work, 9 Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women: changing company practice, 10 The role of the professional housewife, Index