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The proletarian gamble : Korean workers in interwar Japan / Ken C. Kawashima.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kawashima, Ken C. (Ken Chester)
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Koreans--Employment--Japan--History--20th century.
- Koreans.
- Labor supply--Japan--History--20th century.
- Labor supply.
- Korea--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Korea.
- Japan--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Japan.
- Japan--Employees--Supply and demand--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A Marxist interpretation of Korean migrant workers struggles in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s.
- 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 (p. [269]-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036513
- 9781283036511
- 1283036517
- 9780822344179
- 0822344173
- OCLC:
- 320539097
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