The Ashio riot of 1907 : a social history of mining in Japan
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The Ashio riot of 1907 : a social history of mining in Japan
(Comparative and international working-class history)
Duke University Press, 1997
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足尾暴動の史的分析 : 鉱山労働者の社会史
Ashio bōdō no shiteki bunseki
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-266) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780822320081
Description
In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine-Japan's largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world-joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907. Exploring an event in labor history unprecedented in the Japan of that time, Nimura uses this riot as a launching point to analyze the social, economic, and political structure of early industrial Japan. As such, The Ashio Riot of 1907 functions as a powerful critique of Japanese scholarly approaches to labor economics and social history.
Arguing against the spontaneous resistance theory that has long dominated Japanese social history accounts, Nimura traces the laborers' unrest prior to the riots as well as the development of the event itself. Drawing from such varied sources as governmental records, media reports, and secret legal documents relating to the riot, Nimura discusses the active role of the metal mining workers' trade organization and the stance taken by mine labor bosses. He examines how technological development transformed labor-management relations and details the common characteristics of the laborers who were involved in the riot movement. In the course of this historical analysis, Nimura takes on some of the most influential critical perspectives on Japanese social and labor history. This translation of Nimura's prize-winning study-originally published in Japan-contains a preface by Andrew Gordon and an introduction and prologue written especially for this edition.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Editor's Preface / Andrew Gordon xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Author's Introduction to the English Edition 1
Prologue: The Ashio Copper Mine and the Japanese Mining Industry 12
1. The Subjective Conditions of the Ashio Riot: A Critique of the Theory of "Atomized Laborers" 41
2. A Historical Analysis of the Lodge System: A Critique of the Migrant Labor Theory 154
Conclusions: The Significance of Ashio 186
Epilogue: Japanese Miners in Comparative Perspective 217
Notes 233
Index 267
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: pbk ISBN 9780822320180
Description
In The Ashio Riot of 1907, Nimura Kazuo explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine—Japan’s largest mining concern and one of the largest such operations in the world—joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907. Exploring an event in labor history unprecedented in the Japan of that time, Nimura uses this riot as a launching point to analyze the social, economic, and political structure of early industrial Japan. As such, The Ashio Riot of 1907 functions as a powerful critique of Japanese scholarly approaches to labor economics and social history.
Arguing against the spontaneous resistance theory that has long dominated Japanese social history accounts, Nimura traces the laborers’ unrest prior to the riots as well as the development of the event itself. Drawing from such varied sources as governmental records, media reports, and secret legal documents relating to the riot, Nimura discusses the active role of the metal mining workers’ trade organization and the stance taken by mine labor bosses. He examines how technological development transformed labor-management relations and details the common characteristics of the laborers who were involved in the riot movement. In the course of this historical analysis, Nimura takes on some of the most influential critical perspectives on Japanese social and labor history. This translation of Nimura’s prize-winning study—originally published in Japan—contains a preface by Andrew Gordon and an introduction and prologue written especially for this edition.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Editor's Preface / Andrew Gordon xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Author's Introduction to the English Edition 1
Prologue: The Ashio Copper Mine and the Japanese Mining Industry 12
1. The Subjective Conditions of the Ashio Riot: A Critique of the Theory of "Atomized Laborers" 41
2. A Historical Analysis of the Lodge System: A Critique of the Migrant Labor Theory 154
Conclusions: The Significance of Ashio 186
Epilogue: Japanese Miners in Comparative Perspective 217
Notes 233
Index 267
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