ABSTRACT
This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Socio-occupational Structure
chapter 1|30 pages
The Socio-occupational Structure of Contemporary Soviet Society
Typology and Statistics
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chapter 2|29 pages
The Socio-occupational Structure of Contemporary Soviet Society
The Nature and Direction of Change
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part II|107 pages
Social Stratification: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Studies
chapter 6|6 pages
The Interconnection between Work and Consumption
A Provisional Typological Analysis
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chapter 7|24 pages
The Statics and Dynamics of Occupational Prestige
From the Findings of the Comparative International Research Project “The Life-Paths of Young People in Socialist Society”
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part III|100 pages
Status Attainment and Social Mobility
chapter 10|35 pages
Generations and Social Self-determination
A Study of Cohorts from 1948 to 1979 in the Estonian SSR
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