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Glamorized Exploitation: Visual Images of Meiji-Period "Factory Girls" (jokō) (April 2022)

Jennifer Robertson (Author)

Technology and Culture
Volume: 63
Issue: 2
Pages: 450-457

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/854005

DOI: 10.1353/tech.2022.0054

Publication Date: April 2022
Edition Details: On the Cover
Language: English

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Nishiki-e Women Industrialization Silk and silk industry Expositions woodblock prints Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910) Japan

The cover image of this issue of Technology and Culture is a collage crafted from two figures in this essay. On the right side of the image is a detail of a black and white photograph from around 1900 of female silk mill workers (Figure 1) juxtaposed on the left with detail of a color woodblock print from 1877 depicting a mock-up of the Tomioka silk mill featured in an industrial exposition staged that year in Tokyo (Figure 2). The collage was composed by reversing the two figures to create a dynamic "V" designed to draw the viewer's eye from left to right and, by implication, from the glamorized rendition of silk mill work in the woodblock print to a more real-world photograph documenting actual working conditions in a silk mill. This essay provides a socio-historical matrix for, and critical analysis of, representative visual images of sericulture and silk mills.

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Article Aleksandra Kobiljski (April 2022) The Global Industrial Now. Technology and Culture (pp. 309-325). unapi

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