Fabricating Consumers

The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan

By:

Andrew Gordon

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

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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.

Author Biography:

Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University. His previous books include Labor and Imperial Democracy in Japan (UC Press) and A Modern History of Japan.

Release date NZ

November 1st, 2011

Author

Andrew Gordon

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

35 b-w photographs, 1 table

Pages

304

Series

Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780520267855

Product ID

10841445

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