Perilous wagers : gambling, dignity, and day laborers in twenty-first-century Tokyo

Author(s)

• Hammering, Klaus K. Y.

Bibliographic Information

Perilous wagers : gambling, dignity, and day laborers in twenty-first-century Tokyo

Klaus K.Y. Hammering

（Studies of the East Asian Institute）

Cornell University Press, 2024

• : hardcover

Note

Summary: "This book depicts the lives of active construction workers in Tokyo's vanishing day-laborer district, San'ya. It asks how one group of men secured sociality and dignity under abject conditions of life, and it shows how they created accountability, dignity, and sociality through the recognition of their peers."--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269) and index

Contents of Works

• Setting out "yama"
• The day laborer
• Gambling
• Forbearance
• Disintegration

• NCID: BD09119256
• ISBN:
  • 9781501776410
• LCCN: 2023046111
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 276 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN723.5
  • DC23 : 306.0952
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Japan
  • LCSH : Unskilled labor -- Social aspects -- Japan
  • LCSH : Gangsters in popular culture -- Japan
  • LCSH : San'ya (Tokyo, Japan) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
  • LCSH : San'ya (Tokyo, Japan) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00138748