A fascinating exploration of the subculture of Japanese day laborers, whose lives depart radically from the traditions of stability Westerners associate with Japan.
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Presents an unknown side of Japanese society--the world of Japan's day laborers (hiiyatoi rodosha), the urban labor markets where these men gather to find work (yoseba), and the cheap lodging districts where many of them live (doya-gai). Nearly every major Japanese city has a yoseba. These are centers of proletariat culture in the heart of the postindustrial metropolis, similar in many ways to the prewar American skid row. Within these districts, day laborers tend to live outside the two dominant institutions of contemporary Japanese society: the nuclear family and the company.
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Tom Gill is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University.
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- A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays & Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods by Ellen Perecman on page 101
- Civil Society in Asia (Law, Ethics and Governance) by David C. Schak on page 223
- A Sociology of Work in Japan (Contemporary Japanese Society) by Ross Mouer in Back Matter
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