Women's work in Japan's early industrial age -- Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: the 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time -- Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects -- Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the...

Introduction: win-win capitalism -- Approaches to corporate-led empowerment in the Global South -- Feminist research in the wake of corporate power -- Branding poverty: the values of women's empowerment -- "Open happiness": empowering emotions -- The entrepreneurialization of feminized labor --...

"Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early 20th century through their representations in literature, including women's magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction. Domestic service brought together...