Kawashima Ken:
The Proletarian Gamble
Korean Workers In Interwar Japan
Duke University Press (United States), 2009
Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN: 9780822344179
ISBN-10: 0822344173
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The Proletarian Gamble
Korean workers in Japan constituted imperial Japan's largest colonial labour force in the 1920s and 1930s. This work states that contingent labour is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodity economies. It describes how Korean migrants struggled against various recruitment practices, unfair and discriminatory wages and sudden firings.
