OPERATIVES' WELFARE. 1909. The Kanegafuchi Spinning Co., Ltd. Japan.
Kobe, Japan: S. Ichida, [1909]. 1st printing. [4], 6 pages of text. 16 large b/w photographic images, one fold-out, depicting 2 factories [including the recently opened Hiogo Mills], and divers aspects of the worker's everyday life. Tissue guards. Oblong format: 11" x 14-1/4". Grey cloth boards, with gilt, light grey & black stamping to front board. 2 green cloth ties. AEG. Bright cover gilt. Ex-lib, with bookplate & blindstamp to title leaf. A VG+ example. Item #35839
The Kanegafuchi Spinning Company began in "1887 as the Tokyo Cotton Trading Company, based in Kanegafuchi, Tokyo. Actual operations, spinning raw cotton into thread, began in 1889. ... The company changed its name in 1893 to Kanegafuchi Spinning Company ...
The important milestones of [the] early years included the launch of new operations, such as the weaving of cotton textiles, begun with the completion of the Hyogo plant in 1905. The company then turned to the spinning and marketing of silk, opening a spinning plant in Kyoto in 1908 and a raw silk reeling factory in 1921. ... After the 1923 Kanto earthquake destroyed the original plant in Kanegafuchi, the company did not rebuild it." [fundinguniverse].
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Price: $950.00