Difficulty of Being in the Workforce:A Portrait of Chinese Women Textile Workers at Work in the Early 1930s
In the early 1930s,under the capitalist mode of production,the working and living conditions of female textile workers in China were quite harsh.Many textile factories arbitrarily extended working hours to extract the absolute surplus value of female workers,and provided them with almost no labor protection,not to mention maternity protection.The system of"bonded labor"and"foster labor"prevalent in capitalist factories has forced a large number of female textile workers into an abyss of misery.The widespread problem of unequal pay for equal work between men and women not only undermined the occupational rights and interests of women workers,but also made profit-oriented capitalists more favorable to"durable"and"cheap"women workers,which led to men's dissatisfaction and the formation of occupational competition between the two genders.With the global spread of the Great Depression,the reduction and closure of Japanese-owned textile factories due to the war,and the massive wave of unemployment caused by the drought and flooding in several provinces,the occupational pressure on employed workers has increased,intensifying the existing occupational rivalry between the two genders.
the 1930swomen textile workersoccupational competitionwomen's emancipation
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