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The proletarian gamble : Korean workers in interwar Japan / Ken C. Kawashima.

LIBRA DS832.7.K6 K399 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kawashima, Ken C. (Ken Chester)
Series:
Asia-Pacific
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Koreans--Employment--Japan--History--20th century.
Koreans.
Employees.
Supply and demand.
History.
Labor supply.
Emigration and immigration.
Koreans--Employment.
Korea--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Korea.
Japan--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Japan.
Labor supply--Japan--History--20th century.
Japan--Employees--Supply and demand--History--20th century.
Physical Description:
x, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Contents:
The birth of the uncontrollable colonial surplus : a prehistory of the Korean problem
The colonial surplus and the virtual pauper
Intermediary exploitation : Korean workers in the day labor market
Urban expropriation and the threat of the outside : Korean tenant struggles against housing insecurity
The obscene, violent supplement of state power : Korean welfare and class warfare in interwar Japan
At the gates of unemployment : the struggles of unemployed Korean workers.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-286) and index.
ISBN:
9780822343998
0822343991
9780822344179
0822344173
OCLC:
276930443

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