SILK FACTORY GIRLS DRAWING THREAD FROM COCOONS in OLD JAPAN
Ca.1915-23 silver print photograph by T. ENAMI.
Source: flickr.com by Okinowa Soba (Rob) -- see more photos from that era in these collections.
Tsurumi, Patricia E. Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji, Japan. United States: Princeton University Press, 3 June 1992. Page 94. Print.
See also: Tsurumi, E. Patricia. “Whose History Is It Anyway? And Other Questions Historians Should Be Asking. In This Case about the Cotton and Silk Thread Factory Women of Meiji Japan.” Japan Review 6. (1995): 17–36. Print.
Loftus, Ronald. Industrialism, Working Conditions and the Zaibatsu in Prewar Japan. Willamette University, n.d. Web. 4 Feb. 2016.
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