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First Published in 1990. In this extraordinary work of research and informed observation, Jeannie Lo describes her experiences as an OL ('office lady') and working as a factory woman on a typewriter assembly line at Brother Industries in Nagoya, Japan..

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Jeannee Lo spent two years researching the lives and conditions of contemporary Japanese women working in the offices and assembly lines at Brother Industries in Nagoya, Japan. In 1988, Ms. Lo received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, where her research thesis, on which this book is based, won an award of summa cum laude, as well as the university’s Hoopes Prize for outstanding work by a senior. She is presently a copy editor at Look Japan, Ltd. in Tokyo.

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