Office Ladies/Factory Women: Life and Work at a Japanese Company

Life and Work at a Japanese Company
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-87332-599-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

First Published in 1990. In this extraordinary work of research and informed observation, Jeannie Lo describes her experiences as an OL ('office lady') and working as a factory woman on a typewriter assembly line at Brother Industries in Nagoya, Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo, Jeannie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Arriving in Japan; Chapter 2 A Day in the Factory; Chapter 3 Life in the Sales Office; Chapter 4 “Happy Dormitory Life”; Chapter 5 Portraits of Hardship; Chapter 6 Acceptance and Understanding;

Über Autor(innen)

Jeannee Lo spent two years researching the lives and conditions of contemporary Japanese women working in the offices and assembly lines at Brother Industries in Nagoya, Japan. In 1988, Ms. Lo received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, where her research thesis, on which this book is based, won an award of summa cum laude, as well as the university’s Hoopes Prize for outstanding work by a senior. She is presently a copy editor at Look Japan, Ltd. in Tokyo.