The proletarian gamble
Subtitle: Korean workers in interwar Japan
By: Ken C. Kawashima.
Series: Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780822343998; 9780822344179
Subjects: Koreans -- Employment -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Labor supply -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Korea -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century; Japan -- Employees -- Supply and demand -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the uncontrollable colonial surplus : a prehistory of the Korean problem; title: The colonial surplus and the virtual pauper; title: Intermediary exploitation : Korean workers in the day labor market; title: Urban expropriation and the threat of the outside: Korean tenant struggles against housing insecurity; title: The obscene, violent supplement of state power : Korean welfare and class warfare in interwar Japan; title: At the gates of unemployment : the struggles of unemployed Korean workers.