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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Proletarian Gamble
• 1. The Birth of the Uncontrollable Colonial Surplus: A Prehistory of the Korean Problem
• 2. The Colonial Surplus and the Virtual Pauper
• 3. Intermediary Exploitation: Korean Workers in the Day Labor Market
• 4. Urban Expropriation and the Threat of the Outside: Korean Tenant Struggles against Housing Insecurity
• 5. The Obscene, Violent Supplement of State Power: Korean Welfare and Class Warfare in Interwar Japan
• 6. At the Gates of Unemployment: The Struggles of Unemployed Korean Workers
• Appendix 1. Korean Self-help and Social Work Organizations in Japan
• Appendix 2. A Timeline of Anti-Soaikai Activity.

Author/Creator:

Kawashima, Ken C. (Ken Chester)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The proletarian gamble: Korean workers in interwar Japan [by Kawashima, K.C.]

Related Series:

Asia-Pacific

Subjects:

Koreans — Employment — Japan — History — 20th century

Korea — Emigration and immigration — History — 20th century

Japan — Emigration and immigration — History — 20th century

Labor supply — Japan — History — 20th century

Japan — Employees — Supply and demand — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Koreans

Emigration and immigration

Labor supply

Labor market

Koreans — Employment

Japan

Korea

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-286) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

DS832.7.K6 K399 2009

ISBNs:

9780822343998 (cloth, alk. paper)
0822343991 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780822344179 (pbk., alk. paper)
0822344173 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008051092

OCLC Numbers:

276930443