Proletarian Gamble - Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

Informationen zum Autor Ken C. Kawashima Klappentext Analyzes the social and economic conditions--as well as the resistance to these conditions--of the masses of Korean workers in interwar Japan. Zusammenfassung A Marxist interpretation of Korean migrant workers struggles in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Proletarian Gamble 1 1. The Birth of the Uncontrollable Colonial Surplus: A Prehistory of the Korean Problem 25 2. The Colonial Surplus and the Virtual Pauper 45 3. Intermediary Exploitation: Korean Workers in the Day Labor Market 67 4. Urban Expropriation and the Threat of the Outside: Korean Tenant Struggles against Housing Insecurity 94 5. The Obscene, Violent Supplement of State Power: Korean Welfare and Class Warfare in Interwar Japan 130 6. At the Gates of Unemployment: The Struggles of Unemployed Korean Workers 169 Epilogue 204 Appendix 1. Korean Self-help and Social Work Organizations in Japan 217 Appendix 2. A Timeline of Anti-S¿aikai Activity 227 Notes 231 Bibliography 269 Index 287

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• Authors: Ken Kawashima, Ken C Kawashima, Ken C. Kawashima
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2009
• EAN: 9780822343998
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4399-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
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