The Bottom Worker in East Asia : : Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization / / Hideo Aoki and Tomonori Ishioka.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; Volume 262
• VerfasserIn: Aoki, Hideo, 1920-; Ishioka, Tomonori, 1977-
• TeilnehmendeR: Ishioka, Tomonori, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 262.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)

"The protagonist of The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization is a bottom worker. Bottom workers are workers in the North and the South, who have suffered from the downward pressure of hierarchy under neoliberal globalization and have been re-stratified among themselves, from employed irregularly to self-employed and the working homeless. The existing division has become increasingly more fluid as the disparities in working conditions and wages are compressed downward. The book examines workers' entrapment at the bottom, getting off the bottom, and intersecting each other by analyzing how they work, reside in, and build lifeworlds in cities and suburbs of four East Asian countries. In this way, it draws a dynamic picture of the contemporary working class"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction bottom workers in Asia : Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Bangladesh / Hideo Aoki -- The lifeworld of bottom workers : dormitory labor, households, and interpretive labor / Tomonori Ishioka -- Labor-spatial informality of bottom worker / Hideo Aoki -- Transformation of bottom workers in the hotel industry : reproduction structures in dormitory labors / Keiko Yamaguchi -- Stuck in bottom work : Filipina marriage migrants' work lives in South Korea / Ilju Kim and Jah-Hon Koo -- Exclusion and inclusion of Japanese Latin Americans : a case study on public housing in Aichi Prefecture / Ashita Matsumiya -- Changes in Asian cities and bottom people : the case of participatory community development in Thai slums / Yuko Matsusono -- Microcredit enhances informalization : the outcome of governmentality in Chittagong fisher society / Shinji Sakamoto -- The spatial distribution of bottom workers in Tokyo / Tatsuto Asakawa -- The past and present homeless issues in Japan / Keishiro Tsutsumi -- Displacement and entrapment of bottom people in Tokyo : urban regeneration and slow violence / Tsubasa Yuki.