Technology Change and Female Labour in Japan

Edited Masanori Nakamura

PUBLICATION DATA:

ISBN-10: 9280805533,
ISBN-13: 978-92-808-0553-6

LANGUAGE:

English

PAGES:

217

PRICE:

US$33

PUBLISHER:

United Nations University Press

PUBLISHED:

September 1994

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Spanning the period from the early states of Japanese industrialization to the post-war years, this unique study provides an account of how new technologies up until the Second World War resulted in the replacement of women workers by machines, while technological innovation after the war created employment opportunities for women.