Industrial Workers

Industrial Workers The number of people in manufacturing increased from , in to million in . Most of them worked in units employing less than five people and using neither machinery nor electric power. Over half of those employed in modern factories were women. And it was women who organised the first modern strike in . After , the number of men began to increase but only in the 1930s did male workers begin to outnumber women. The size of factories also began to increase. Factories employing more than a hundred workers, just over , in , jumped to over , by and , by the 1930s; yet even in , there were over , workshops Workers in a textile factory. that employed less than five employees. This sustained the family- centred ideology, just as nationalism was sustained by a strong patriarchal system under an emperor who was like a family patriarch. The rapid and unregulated growth of industry and the demand for natural resources such as timber led to environmental destruction. Tanaka Shozo, elected to the first House of Representatives, launched the first agitation against industrial pollution in with villagers in a mass protest forcing the government to take action.