| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 a Nation 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 Historian of the West Looks to Japan; B. Lemire |
| Summary |
Much of the existing writing on Japan's economic rise has concentrated on the production of goods, and has largely neglected the role of the consumers and users of the expanding output of Japanese businesses and workers. While historians of Europe and North America have opened up the 'world of goods' and its role in industrialisation and modernisation, Japan is often seen as having little consumption history of its own, distinct from Western paths of development. This volume seeks to change this picture, and brings together studies by Japanese, British and American historians that combine economic, social and cultural analysis of the distinctive historical pathways of consumption in Japan. Chapters focus on the interactions among individuals, institutions and social structures that have determined the changing pattern of everyday life in Japan since the nineteenth century, viewing consumption history through contexts that range from household labour allocation and gender relations to fashion, food and leisure. The collection thus aims both to broaden the comparative framework within which global consumption history can be studied and to demonstrate some of the ways in which Japanese consumer life followed its own course throughout the process of economic development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Japan -- History
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Consumer behavior -- Japan -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Consumer Behavior.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Consumer behavior
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Consumption (Economics)
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Consommation -- Japon -- Histoire.
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Consommateurs -- Comportement -- Japon -- Histoire.
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Francks, Penelope, 1949-
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Hunter, Janet, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9780230367340 |
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0230367348 |
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