- 著者
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中川 宗人
- 出版者
- 関東社会学会
- 雑誌
- 年報社会学論集 (ISSN:09194363)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2017, no.30, pp.39-50, 2017
<p>Historical research on labor and gender in Japan is still insufficient. This paper analyzes the notion of gender held by Muto Sanji, who was a prominent business manager in Japan's cotton-spinning industry before WW2. Because the expectations demanded of labor show up in managers' congratulatory messages, we use Muto's congratulatory messages for data. As a result of our analysis, Muto's notion of gender includes (1) a justification of employment using a market-oriented logic, (2) essentialism regarding gender roles in labor, and (3) the justification of a gender division of labor via a genderized family concept. These findings have been overlooked in previous research.</p>