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The sound of the whistle: railroads and the state in Meiji Japan (Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1996) Free, Dan (2008). Early Japanese Railways 1853–1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9784805310069. Kinzley, W. Dean. "Merging Lines: Organising Japan's National Railroad, 1906 ...
A railroad section gang — including common workers sometimes called gandy dancers — responsible for maintenance of a particular section of railway. One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail. Photo published in 1917
The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan (Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1996). Kinzley, W. Dean. "Merging Lines: Organising Japan's National Railroad, 1906-1914" Journal of Transport History 27#2 (2006) Spoonley, Dave (2023). Japan's Railways: Hokkaido to Chubu. World Railways Series, Vol 5. Stamford, Lincs, UK: Key Publishing.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
Japanese American history is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of ethnic Japanese in the United States. People from Japan began immigrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration .
A labour revolt or worker's uprising is a period of civil unrest characterised by strong labour militancy and strike activity. The history of labour revolts often provides the historical basis for many advocates of Marxism , communism , socialism and anarchism , with many instances occurring around the world in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
Japan enjoyed solid economic growth at this time and most people lived longer and healthier lives. The population rose from 34 million in 1872 to 52 million in 1915. [198] Poor working conditions in factories led to growing labor unrest, [199] and many workers and intellectuals came to embrace socialist ideas. [200]