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ISBN 10: 0822392293
ISBN 13: 9780822392293
Author: Ken Kawashima
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodity economies. He scrutinizes how the labor power of Korean workers in Japan was commodified, and how these workers both fought against the racist and contingent conditions of exchange and combated institutionalized racism. Kawashima draws on previously unseen archival materials from interwar Japan as he describes how Korean migrants struggled against various recruitment practices, unfair and discriminatory wages, sudden firings, racist housing practices, and excessive bureaucratic red tape. Demonstrating that there was no single Korean “minority,” he reveals how Koreans exploited fellow Koreans and how the stratification of their communities worked to the advantage of state and capital. However, Kawashima also describes how, when migrant workers did organize—as when they became involved in Rōsō (the largest Korean communist labor union in Japan) and in Zenkyō (the Japanese communist labor union)—their diverse struggles were united toward a common goal. In The Proletarian Gamble, his analysis of the Korean migrant workers’ experiences opens into a much broader rethinking of the fundamental nature of capitalist commodity economies and the analytical categories of the proletariat, surplus populations, commodification, and state power.
The Proletarian Gamble 1st Table of contents:
1: THE BIRTH OF THE UNCONTROLLABLE COLONIAL SURPLUS
A Prehistory of the Korean Problem
The Mass Recruitment of Korean Peasants as Workers during the First World War
The Decline of Mass Recruitments
The Birth of the Uncontrollable Colonial Surplus
2: THE COLONIAL SURPLUS AND THE VIRTUAL PAUPER
The Conjuncture of Agricultural Crisis in Korea and Industrial Recession in Japan
Korean Free Workers and Day Workers
Virtual Paupers, Actual Struggles: Korean Poverty and Labor Movements
The Virtual Pauper and the Uncontrollable Colonial Surplus
3: INTERMEDIARY EXPLOITATION
Korean Workers in the Day Labor Market
A Brief Introduction to the Interwar Day Labor Market and Public Works
The Ethnic Division of Labor
The Social Space of Intermediary Exploitation: The Hamba or Work Camp
Intermediary Exploitation
Case Example: The Sanshin Railway Strike
The Political Significance of Korean Day Labor
4: URBAN EXPROPRIATION AND THE THREAT OF THE OUTSIDE
Korean Tenant Struggles against Housing Insecurity
The Housing Crisis after 1920: Japanese Landlords and Korean Tenants
The Logic of Housing Discrimination
Japanese Proper Names and Korean Evictions
The Force of Law (I): Struggles over Eviction
Eviction Fees
On Fraud and Extortion
Mr. Kim Goes to the Supreme Court
On the Micropolitics of the Proper Name
The Force of Law (II): Struggles over Barrack Evacuation
Conclusion: Urban Expropriation and the Proper Name
5: THE OBSCENE, VIOLENT SUPPLEMENT OF STATE POWER
Korean Welfare and Class Warfare in Interwar Japan
The “Massification of the Police and the Policification of the Masses”
The Sōaikai as Preventive Police
Controlling and Commodifying Surplus Populations through Mutual Love
The Sōaikai as Labor Supplier in the Day Labor Market
The Sōaikai Milieu of Commodification and Intermediary Exploitation
The Figure of the Korean and the Discourse of Futei Senjin
The Warfare of Welfare: From Prevention to Preemptive Violence
Ethnic Difference, Representation, and Disavowal
6: AT THE GATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT
The Struggles of Unemployed Korean Workers
Korean Unemployment in Japan and the Crisis of the Nation
Guarding the Gates of the Uerp
Inside the Uerp: Inventing the Relative Autonomy of the State
Employment Insecurity within the Uerp: The Problem of Working Days
Work Discipline in the Uerp: Di¬erences between Direct Management and Sub-Contracting
Inside and outside the Uerp
EPILOGUE
Contingencies of Commodification
State Power and Surplus Populations
The State of Emergency
APPENDIX 1
Korean Self-help and Social Work Organizations in Japan (by prefecture and with membership over 1,000)
APPENDIX 2
A Timeline of Anti-Sōaikai Activity
NOTES
Introduction: The Proletarian Gamble
1. Uncontrollable Colonial Surplus
2. Colonial Surplus, Virtual Pauper
3. Intermediary Exploitation
4. Urban Expropriation
5. State Power
6. At the Gates of Unemployment
Epilogue
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary sources
Secondary Sources
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