Fabricating consumers : the sewing machine in modern Japan

The Resource Fabricating consumers : the sewing machine in modern Japan
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Fabricating consumers : the sewing machine in modern Japan
Title remainder
the sewing machine in modern Japan
Statement of responsibility
Andrew Gordon
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity
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Cataloging source
AU@
Dewey number
338.7/64620440952
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HD9971.5.S483
LC item number
J33 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Asia: local studies/global themes
Series volume
no. 19
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