| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Gunju sangyo to josei rodo: Dai niji sekai taisen ka no Nichi-Bei hikaku (Military industry and women's work: A comparison of Japan and the United States during World War II). By Chitose Sato. (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2003. 402 pp. ¥5,000, ISBN 4-88202-801-8.) In Japanese.

Dr. Chitose Sato's work on women's labor in the wartime military aircraft industry studies an important aspect of Japanese and U.S. war efforts, an aspect that has been neglected in general World War II histories. As a comparative history based on a multitude of Japanese and American sources, this book points out a number of differences between Japanese and American women laborers serving the war effort, but it also reveals many similarities between them—similarities that one would not expect from two nations normally considered quite different politically, economically, culturally, and geographically. Sato's work also provides an important contribution to universal history as a case study of gender-based division of labor: The military aircraft industry—a heavy industry with a labor shortage—adjusted its production processes so that "men's work" was replaced by "women's work."

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