Kawashima, Ken C.

The proletarian gamble : Korean workers in interwar Japan / Ken C. Kawashima. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2009. - x, 297 p. ; 25 cm. - Asia-Pacific. . - Asia-Pacific. .

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

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.

9780822343998 (alk. paper) 9780822344179 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008051092


Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Coreanos--Empleo--Historia--Japón--Siglo XX.
Corea--Emigración e inmigración--Historia--Siglo XX.
Koreans--Employment--History--Japan--20th century.
Labor supply--History--Japan--20th century.


Korea--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Japan--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

409 DS 832.7 / K22p 2009

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