The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goodsavailable in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the course of economic development. PENELOPE FRANCKS was until 2004 Reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Leeds, USA,where she taught courses on the Japanese economy and Japanesestudies. Her longstanding work on Japanese agriculture culminated in Rural Economic Development in Japan (2006) and she has recently published 'The Japanese Consumer; an Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan' (2009). JANET HUNTER Saji Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, UK. She has written widely on the economic history of modern Japan, and her major publications include 'Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy' (2003, Japanese edition 2008). INDICE: Introduction: Japan's Consumption History in Comparative Perspective; 'J. Hunter '& 'P. Francks' - PART I: GENDER, THE HOUSEHOLD AND CONSUMPTION- The Role of Housework in Everyday Life: Another Aspect of Consumption in Modern Japan; 'M. Tanimoto' - Like Bamboo Shoots after the Rain: the Growth of aNation of Dressmakers and Consumers; 'A. Gordon' - Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice-cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan; 'H. Macnaughtan' - PART II: TRADITION, MODERNITY AND THE GROWTH OF CONSUMPTION - Japanese Modernisation and the Changing Everyday Life of the Consumer: Evidence from Household Accounts; 'S. Nakanishi' &' T. Futaya' - Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan; 'B. Kushner' - Kimono Fashion:the Consumer and the Growth of the Textile Industry in Pre-war Japan; 'P. Francks' - Reviving Tradition: Patients and the Shaping of Japan's Traditional Medicines Industry; 'M. Umemura' - PART III: SPACES AND PATHWAYS OF CONSUMPTION - Getting on a Train: Railway Passengers and the Growth of Train Travel in Meiji Japan; 'N. Nakamura' - People and Post Offices: Consumption of Postal Services in Japan from the Late Nineteenth Century; 'J. Hunter' - Mail-order Retailing in Pre-war Japan: a Pathway to Consumption Before the Mass Market; 'I. Mitsuzono' - From Corporate Playground to Family Resort: Golf as Commodity in Post-war Japan; 'A. Lockyer' - Conclusion: History and the Consumer: an Historianof the West Looks to Japan; 'B. Lemire'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27366-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés