Perilous Wagers - Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo

"This book depicts the lives of active construction workers in Tokyo's vanishing day-laborer district, San'ya. It asks how one group of men secured sociality and dignity under abject conditions of life, and it shows how they created accountability, dignity, and sociality through the recognition of their peers."--

List of contents

Introduction

1. Setting Out "Yama"

2. The Day-Laborer

3. Gambling

4. Forbearance

5. Disintegration

Epilogue

About the author

Klaus K. Y. Hammering received his doctorate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is currently an independent scholar who writes on issues of cultural politics, ideology, fascism, labor, and transgression in Japan today.

Product details

• Authors: Klaus K. Y. Hammering
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781501776410
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-7641-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology