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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fred Notehelfer of the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies says,
This review is from: The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan (Comparative and International Working-Class History) (Paperback)
"Nimura is by all measures a leading figure in the field of Japanese labor history. And he has much to tell us about how labor in Japan was transformed in the Meiji period from traditional structures to a newer and more 'modern' system."
I would just add to this that Nimura succeeds in doing something like what E.P. Thompson did in his study of English bread riots - explaining a particular labor conflict in a way that shows its broader significance. I found this case interesting for the light it cast the relationships of labor and capital in the formative decades of industrial Japan. Some of the book is engaged in a guild conversation among historians of Japan, but as a generalist interested in labor and global capitalism, there was plenty to keep me reading as well. Nimura's discussion of "migrant labor" in industrializing Japan was particularly fascinating. |
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The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan (Comparative and International Working-Class History) by Kazuo Nimura (Paperback - December 24, 1997)
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