CAS350H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Operations Management, Juvenile Delinquency, Calisthenics
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Elyssa faison: history professor at the university of oklahoma, focus on japanese history. Women and children younger than 12 could no longer work nights. Control of individual workers through regulation of time and bodies. 1929: last provisions of japan"s factory law went into effect especially impactful on textile. Managers responded about proper use of increased free time . Management of workers" off hours as part of a plan for social regulation. Some factory managers felt their daughters " free time leads to sexual depravity. Leads to break with parents who placed girls in companies" care. Leads girls to get pregnant or turn to prostitution. Consultants suggested companies create modern housewives by training them in home economics and offering libraries. Factories attempted to indicate a gendered national subject hood and organize labor. Yoka: time not spent on wage work (uncontrolled activities) Goraku: recreational time, leisure (play, social interaction, cultural training) German efficiency efforts (german rationalization movement) was paid attention to.
