Organized workers and socialist politics in interwar Japan
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Organized workers and socialist politics in interwar Japan
Cambridge University Press, 2010, c1981
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Organized workers & socialist politics in interwar Japan
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: pbk366.621||L3201220362
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"This digitally printed version 2010"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--Backcover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-312) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1981, this book, a political history of organised labour in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, broke ground in research on the Japanese socialist movement by examining the movement from the perspective of the unions, which then provided the socialist parties with much of their popular support. Focusing on the Japan General Federation of Labour, an important pacesetter for labour politics, the author analyses why a significant cross-section of organised workers began the 1920s with promising vitality and high hopes of contributing to a progressive, socialist reconstruction of Japan, only to abandon this political commitment in the 1930s, with adverse consequences both for the unions and for their political party allies. Throughout, the author assesses Japanese and Western interpretations of Japanese society and politics in seeking a balanced understanding of the dynamics and significance of popular social protest in the critical interwar decades.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Labour's image of the past in 1919-1920
- 2. Anarchism, socialism and communism in the labour movement, 1920-1923
- 3. The communist offensive and the 1925 labour split
- 4. Industrial paternalism and Sodomei-Hyogikai rivalry in the factories
- 5. Labour and the socialist party movement, 1925-1928
- 6. Labour's retreat from socialist politics, 1929-1932
- 7. Labour becalmed, 1932-1936
- 8. Toward dissolution, 1936-1940
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Figures
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
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