San'ya Blues : : Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo / / Edward Fowler.
Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city's largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and vagrants, has been home for more than half a...
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Fowler, Edward, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut San'ya Blues : Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo / Edward Fowler. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1998 1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 halftones, 5 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND MONEY -- PROLOGUE -- 1. SETTING -- 2. LIVES -- 3. ACTIVISM -- 4. RITES -- 5. WORK -- INTERVIEWING. MEMORY AS ORAL HISTORY -- GLOSSARY -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF PSEUDONYMS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Over the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San'ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city's largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and vagrants, has been home for more than half a century to anywhere from five to fifteen thousand men who cluster in the mornings at a crossroads called Namidabashi (Bridge of Tears) in hopes of getting work. The day-labor market, along with gambling and prostitution, is run by Japan's organized crime syndicates, the yakuza. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. He also talked with day laborers and local merchants, union leaders and bureaucrats, gangsters and missionaries. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed with Fowler's narrative and diary entries, bring to life a community on the margins of contemporary Japan.Located near a former outcaste neighborhood, on what was once a public execution ground, San'ya shows a hidden face of Japan and contradicts the common assumption of economic and social homogeneity. Fowler argues that differences in ethnicity and class, normally suppressed in mainstream Japanese society, are conspicuous in San'ya and similar communities. San'ya's largely middle-aged, male day-laborer population contains many individuals displaced by Japan's economic success, including migrants from village communities, castoffs from restructuring industries, and foreign workers from Korea and China. The neighborhood and its inhabitants serve as an economic buffer zone—they are the last to feel the effects of a boom and the first to feel a recession. They come alive in this book, telling urgent stories that personify such abstractions as the costs of modernization and the meaning of physical labor in postindustrial society. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Day laborers Japan Tokyo. Working class Japan Tokyo. Political Science & Political History. Sociology & Social Science. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724152 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501724152 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501724152/original |
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