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Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.

Sewing-machine industry --- Clothing trade --- Consumers --- J4300.80 --- J4456 --- J4520 --- Customers (Consumers) --- Shoppers --- Persons --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- Machinery industry --- History --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Economy and industry -- manufacturing and production -- household consumer products --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- retail and consumption --- Singer Sewing Machine Company --- Singer Manufacturing Company --- Singer Company --- History. --- Sewing machines --- Clothing factories --- Machine sewing --- Equipment and supplies --- E-books --- Fashion industry --- Consumers - Japan - History - 20th century. --- 19th century japan. --- 19th century women. --- business infrastructure. --- company business profiles. --- consumerism history. --- corporate innovation. --- dress and textiles. --- east asia. --- fashion and clothing. --- female consumer. --- history of anthropology. --- history of capitalism. --- history of fashion. --- japan social history. --- japanese class structure. --- japanese females. --- japanese history. --- japanese role of women. --- japanese women. --- middle class. --- modern japan. --- sewing machine history. --- socioeconomic change. --- western dress. --- women in workplace.