Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan
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- Synopsis
- In a world that can conceive Japanese workers only as men in suits with cell phones, this book offers a fascinating look at the other side of the world of Japan's unskilled day laborers who live outside of the dominant institutions of modern Japanese culture: the family and the company. These men gather daily at urban labor markets to look for work, then sleep in nearby cheap lodging districts, or worse, on the streets huddled around bonfires. Gill (social sciences, U. of Tokyo) explores the egalitarian, libertarian lifestyle of these men, who live day-to-day but are shadowed by the knowledge that their lifestyle leads to exclusion from mainstream society, and usually homelessness and an early death on the streets.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 271 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780791448274
- Publisher:
- State University of New York Press
- Date of Addition:
- 12/15/09
- Copyrighted By:
- State University of New York
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Trans Access
- Proofread By:
- Trans Access
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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