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The bottom worker in East Asia : composition and transformation under neoliberal globalization / edited by Hideo Aoki, Tomonori Ishioka

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Aoki, Hideo, 1943- editor.
Ishioka, Tomonori, 1977- editor.
E.J. Brill (Firm)
John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
Series:
Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 262.
Studies in critical social sciences,; volume 262
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Working poor--East Asia--Social conditions.
Working poor.
Urban poor--East Asia--Social conditions.
Urban poor.
Day laborers--East Asia--Social conditions.
Day laborers.
Foreign workers--East Asia--Social conditions.
Foreign workers.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color).
Edition:
1ST ED.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Contents:
Introduction bottom workers in Asia : Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Bangladesh / Hideo Aoki
The lifeworld of bottom workers : dormitory labor, households, and interpretive labor / Tomonori Ishioka
Labor-spatial informality of bottom worker / Hideo Aoki
Transformation of bottom workers in the hotel industry : reproduction structures in dormitory labors / Keiko Yamaguchi
Stuck in bottom work : Filipina marriage migrants' work lives in South Korea / Ilju Kim and Jah-Hon Koo
Exclusion and inclusion of Japanese Latin Americans : a case study on public housing in Aichi Prefecture / Ashita Matsumiya
Changes in Asian cities and bottom people : the case of participatory community development in Thai slums / Yuko Matsusono
Microcredit enhances informalization : the outcome of governmentality in Chittagong fisher society / Shinji Sakamoto
The spatial distribution of bottom workers in Tokyo / Tatsuto Asakawa
The past and present homeless issues in Japan / Keishiro Tsutsumi
Displacement and entrapment of bottom people in Tokyo : urban regeneration and slow violence / Tsubasa Yuki.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2023).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Bottom worker in East Asia
ISBN:
9789004678231
9004678239
Publisher Number:
99994320929
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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