This is a study of "karayuki-san", impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. It follows the life of one prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to accept cleaning work in Borneo and then forced to work as a prostitute in a brothel.

Yanowitch, Murray

Introduction, PART I. SOCIO-OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE, 1. The Socio-occupational Structure of Contemporary Soviet Society: 1)rpology and Statistics, 2. The Socio-occupational Structure of Contemporary Soviet Society: The Nature and Direction of Change, PART II. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES, 3. On the Question of Social Differentiation in Developed Socialist Society, 4. Social Strata in the Class Structure of Socialist Society (An Attempt at Theoretical Construction and Empirical Investigation), 5. Changes in the Social Profile of Urban Residents, 6. The Interconnection between Work and Consumption: A Provisional Typological Analysis, 7. The Statics and Dynamics of Occupational Prestige, 8. Soviet Women: Problems of Work and Daily Life, PART III. STATUS ATTAINMENT AND SOCIAL MOBILITY, 9. A Causal Model of Youth Mobility, 10. Generations and Social Self-determination (A Study of Cohorts from 1948 to 1979 in the Estonian SSR), 11. The Changing Social Composition and Occupational Orientation of the Student Body in the USSR, 12. The Dynamics of Social Mobility in the USSR, Bibliography, About the Editor