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

As the first and only country in Asia to industrialise in the nineteenth century Japan holds special fascination for theorists of development.1 Scholars have tried to explain Japan’s industrialisation by exploring numerous factors such as the role of the government’s industrial policy, the formation of a business ethos linked to nationalist ideology, and the availability of an agricultural surplus. However, few Western-language studies have focused on the crucial role of female labour in the early years of industrialisation from around the 1870s to the First World War.2 During this period there were more women in the industrial labour force in Japan than in any other country for which we have comparable figures. In the textiles industry, which formed the basis of the Industrial Revolution, over 80 per cent of the workers were female

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