The Development of Educational Activities as Coal Mine Capital under the Mine Safety Movement: The life Improvement Activities of the Coal Mine Housewives' Association
2003 Volume 39 Pages 43-52
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2003 Volume 39 Pages 43-52
The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of human capital through worker education under the Mine Safety movement. The Mine Safety movement was developed by the Ministry of Home Affairs developed following a post World War I panic and revision of the Factory Law following the adoption of the International Labor Treaty for the purpose of promoting labor cooperation. One of its purposes was to promote life improvement, and the Coal Mine Housewives' Association played an important part in this. In other words, it intervened in the worker's private territory, using the slogan, “safety comes from the family”.
The Safety movement served capital by improving the quality of labor capital through worker education and improved labor relations and served the workers by helping to improve their living conditions.
