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The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan

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Description for The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan Paperback. A Marxist interpretation of Korean migrant workers struggles in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 31 tables, 1 map, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; HBJF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodity economies. He scrutinizes how the labor power of Korean workers in Japan was commodified, and how these workers both fought against the racist and contingent conditions of exchange and combated institutionalized racism.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822344179
SKU
V9780822344179
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About Ken C. Kawashima
Ken C. Kawashima is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
“The Proletarian Gamble provides students of modern Japanese-Korean history with a meticulously researched window into the lives of Korean labor migrants to Japan. Kawashima’s efforts will prove invaluable to students of Korean-Japanese affairs, but also to those interested in labor and migration issues, as well. This book should be required reading for all who enjoy the convenience of Japan’s extensive ... Read more

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