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020			_a9781501724152 _qPDF
024	7		_a10.7591/9781501724152 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9781501724152
035			_a(DE-B1597)514777
035			_a(OCoLC)1083586634
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aHD5854.2.J3 _bF68 1996
072		7	_aPOL013000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a305.5/62 _qOCoLC _220/eng/20230216
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aFowler, Edward _eautore
245	1	0	_aSan'ya Blues : _bLaboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo / _cEdward Fowler.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©1998
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.) : _b12 halftones, 5 maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tMAPS -- _tILLUSTRATIONS -- _tPREFACE -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tA NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND MONEY -- _tPROLOGUE -- _t1. SETTING -- _t2. LIVES -- _t3. ACTIVISM -- _t4. RITES -- _t5. WORK -- _tINTERVIEWING. MEMORY AS ORAL HISTORY -- _tGLOSSARY -- _tGENERAL INDEX -- _tINDEX OF PSEUDONYMS
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aOver 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.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aDay laborers _zJapan _zTokyo.
650		0	_aWorking class _zJapan _zTokyo.
650		4	_aPolitical Science & Political History.
650		4	_aSociology & Social Science.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501724152
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501724152
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501724152/original
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