Women in the Silk-reeling Industry in Nineteenth-century Japan

Bernstein, Gail Lee

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“…To better understand Nagano's rise as the major silk reeling region in Japan and the employment of many of its young women in harsh work conditions, I examine Japan's as well as Nagano's population trends and the prefecture's ecological resources. Although there is a relatively large body of literature on the Japanese raw silk industry of the time and how it related to the world and a sizable amount of literature on the workers in such industry (e.g., [5,[8][9][10][11][12]), the focus of the current research is on how the national and local demographic and environmental forces gave rise to the silk industry, thereby conditioning women's participation in the globalization of silk reeling.…”

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Population, Resources and Female Labor in the Raw Silk Industry of Nagano in Meiji Japan

Liao

2013

Social Sciences

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Gendered realities in local regions are a prominent issue in today’s global economy. However, the process of globalization in the late-19th century already involved the local Nagano women in an indispensable role in Japan’s raw silk industry. This paper studies the interplay between population growth and relatively limited resources in Nagano vis-à-vis the demand for female labor during the Meiji era, when Japan became a major raw silk producer. The local/regional constraints in Nagano interacted with economic globalization and gave Nagano its position in the global market. Therefore, we cannot ignore the consequences of local/regional constraints and advantages in global processes on female workers. Population pressure and environmental squeeze are found to have been important forces that integrated the local and regional in the global process of industrialization and trade, and together, they produced social outcomes, such as gender hierarchies in globalization and glocalization processes

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Population, Resources and Female Labor in the Raw Silk Industry of Nagano in Meiji Japan

Liao

2013

Social Sciences

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“…At present, aside from cell-length profiles in the elongation-only region, the only available alternative technique for the derivation of growth velocities in the leaf growth zone of grasses is the marking of the growth zone by pinning through the surrounding sheaths and measuring the pin-hole displacement after a short time interval (Schnyder et al 1987;Bernstein et al 1993;Ben-Haj-Salah and Tardieu 1995) or by following ink marks placed on the growth zone after removal of the surrounding sheaths (Volenec and Nelson 1981;Schnyder et al 1987). In principle, the pinning method can also be used to determine the velocity distribution in the cell division zone of the leaf, which is necessary for calculation of cell division distribution using the continuity equation.…”

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Kinematic Analysis of Leaf Growth in Grasses: A Comment on Spatial and Temporal Quantitative Analysis of Cell Division and Elongation Rate in Growing Wheat Leaves under Saline Conditions

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Nelson

2009

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Madness in the Family

Kim

2022

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Madness in the Family shows how the family was central in providing care and shaping understandings of madness in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. Despite the spread of Japanese psychiatry in the late nineteenth century, the caregiving obligations of families intensified. Without the social welfare policies necessary to make psychiatry accessible to the broader public, the burden of care continued to fall on families, especially women. When women fell ill, they drew on their experiences of the intimacies of kinship to make sense of their mental and emotional afflictions, producing vernacular understandings of madness that resisted popular notions of women’s innate pathologies. Madness in the Family traces how women and families navigated unprecedented and shifting medical, spiritual, legal, and commercial landscapes, from the countryside where fox spirits were said to overtake human minds and cage-like structures confined those considered mentally ill at home, to urban areas where feminized illnesses like hysteria became popularized and the criminal courtroom where female defendants were assessed for menstruation-induced mental abnormalities. Across these diverse sites, women and families produced a distinct set of gendered ideas and practices concerning care, bodies, and illness that would lay the groundwork for the designation of the family from the post–World War II period until today as the most “natural” locus of care for those suffering from mental and emotional afflictions.

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Women in the Silk-reeling Industry in Nineteenth-century Japan

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Population, Resources and Female Labor in the Raw Silk Industry of Nagano in Meiji Japan

Population, Resources and Female Labor in the Raw Silk Industry of Nagano in Meiji Japan

Kinematic Analysis of Leaf Growth in Grasses: A Comment on Spatial and Temporal Quantitative Analysis of Cell Division and Elongation Rate in Growing Wheat Leaves under Saline Conditions

Madness in the Family

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