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The Making of Japan's New Working Class: "Freeters" and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market

February 1, 2010 by Paul

日本の新しい労働者階級の形成−−フリーターおよび中学から労働市場への参入

From Japan Focus

David H. Slater

This article is a modified and developed version of a chapter from Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Socialization and Strategies, edited by Ishida Hiroshi and David H. Slater, Routledge 2009. For a brief outline of the book's arguments, please see Note 1A at the end of the article.

Introduction: The "New Working Class" of Urban Japan

Commercial Appetite and Human Need: The Accidental and Fated Revival of Kobayashi Takiji's Cannery Ship

June 30, 2009 by Paul

 Norma Field

Japan's best-known proletarian novel, Kani Kosen (depicting conditions aboard a crab-canning factory ship operating off Soviet waters)[2] [1] by Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), enjoyed an utterly unanticipated revival in the course of 2008.

Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI

June 6, 2009 by Paul

Non-Profit Organization : MOYAI

Which Side Are You On?: Hakenmura and the Working Poor as a Tipping Point in Japanese Labor Politics

April 15, 2009 by Paul

From Japan Focus

 

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