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  • Titel
    Glamorized exploitation : Visual images of Meiji-period "Factory Girls" (jokō).
  • Person
  • Verfasserangaben
    Jennifer Robertson
  • Erscheinungsjahr
    2022
  • Seiten
    Seite 450 - 457
  • Illustrationen
    Illustrationen
  • Gesamtwerk
    book
  • Anmerkungen
    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 457 Erschienen in: Technology and culture ; Volume 63, 2022/2
Abstract

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 () 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 (). 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.