Kawashima / Chow / Harootunian The Proletarian Gamble

Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9229-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

A Marxist interpretation of Korean migrant workers struggles in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kawashima, Ken C.

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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-Soaikai Activity 227

Notes 231

Bibliography 269

Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

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