The Proletarian Gamble

by Kawashima, Ken C.

• ISBN13: 9780822343998
• ISBN10: 0822343991
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This book establishes Ken C. Kawashima not simply as one of the best students of modern Japanese history in the world, but as one with a rare facility for effective use of theory amid a plethora of primary sources in Japanese and Korean. This book illustrates at once a very detailed daily life of Korean day workers in various Japanese cities, a study thoroughly at home with both modern Japanese and Korean history, and an author who is fully versed in a wide body of theory--Marx, Benjamin, Althusser, Foucault, Zi ek, and many others. It is simply the best book in East Asian history that I have read in many years."--Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Proletarian Gamble

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

Epilogue

Korean Self-help and Social Work Organizations in Japan

A Timeline of Anti-S¿aikai Activity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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