RT Book
T1 Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo
T2 Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
A1 Hammering, Klaus K. Y.
LA English
PP Ithaca, NY
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/190097374X
AB The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns to metropolitan Tokyo. Although San'ya has nearly vanished during the past twenty years, its import persists as a black market where its small population of male day-laborers can be contracted for the most undesirable of tasks, without consideration for their health or safety. In this context, Hammering's book examines classic ethnographic themes of labor, exchange, value, honor, shame, temporality, desire, gender, and personhood. It explores how one group of day-laborers embodied a transgressive masculinity intimately intertwined with honorable mobster values of old, and how they created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life. Perilous Wagers tracks these underdog values across construction sites, non-profit organizations, hospitals, bunkhouses, and illegal gambling dens, giving imaginative life to a stigmatized, forgotten social world
AB "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."--
OP 288
CN HN723.5
SN 9781501776441
K1 Masculinity : Social aspects : Japan
K1 Unskilled labor : Social aspects : Japan
K1 Gangsters in popular culture : Japan
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
K1 HISTORY / Asia / Japan
K1 ASIAN STUDIES
K1 Anthropology
K1 LABOR HISTORY
K1 Postwar day-laborers in Japan
K1 Marginalized masculinities in Japan
K1 Underdog yakuza virtues today
K1 Gambling
K1 Horses
K1 Debt
K1 and experience in Japan
K1 3K or 3D and construction work in Japan
K1 San'ya (Tokyo, Japan) : Social conditions : 21st century
K1 San'ya (Tokyo, Japan) : Economic conditions : 21st century
K1 Postwar day-laborers in Japan, Marginalized masculinities in Japan, Underdog yakuza virtues today, Gambling, horses, debt, and experience in Japan, 3K or 3D and construction work in Japan
DO 10.1515/9781501776441