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Japanese Women's Role In The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution was a time of major change when the output of machine made goods increased around the mid 1700s. Japanese women made a huge contribution to the Industrial Revolution. They worked in silk factories spinning and weaving dealing with the brutal treatment that they faced not only from factory inspectors, but other as well as their living conditions. Being that they were treated so horrible, the costs of working in factories as a female Japanese worker outweighed the little benefits they did have such as how industrialization brought plenty of jobs and the food supplies increased. Women played a key role in helping compete economically with other industrialized Western countries. Most of the workers in the cotton and silk

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