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Time for Housework and Time for ‘Oshigoto’
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Abstract This article investigates the time use and consciousness of a group of housewives working for Maple, a Japanese network business organizing 200,000 housewives all over Japan. The three years of fieldwork show that the invisible time organization of the ho... view more
This article investigates the time use and consciousness of a group of housewives working for Maple, a Japanese network business organizing 200,000 housewives all over Japan. The three years of fieldwork show that the invisible time organization of the housewives has been a vital obstacle to their business success. However, the article argues their time organization does not derive from static gendered time consciousness but it is rather produced and reproduced at the local level, through ideologies, discourses and practices.... view less
Classification
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Free Keywords
employment; housewives; Japanese women; Multi-level Marketing; time;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 215-232
Journal
Time & Society, 15 (2006) 2-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X06066951
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)