Ken C. Kawashima

The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes the social and economic conditions--as well as the resistance to these conditions--of the masses of Korean workers in interwar Japan.

Produktdetails

• Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344179
• ISBN-10: 0822344173
• Artikelnr.: 25941950

Autorenporträt

Ken C. Kawashima is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

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