Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo
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. Altho...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Hammering, Klaus K. Y.
(Author)
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| Format: | Electronic
Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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| Published: |
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
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| Series/Journal: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tokyo
/ Day-laborer
/ Ethnology
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Girard, René 1923-2015
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBM Asia
ZB Sociology
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| Further subjects: | B
Gambling
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Marginalized masculinities in Japan
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Labor & Industrial Relations / POLITICAL SCIENCE
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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ASIAN STUDIES
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Postwar day-laborers in Japan
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Anthropology
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3K or 3D and construction work in Japan
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Asia / Japan / HISTORY
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San'ya (Tokyo, Japan)
Social conditions 21st century
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Gangsters in popular culture (Japan)
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Debt
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Unskilled labor
Social aspects (Japan)
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Underdog yakuza virtues today
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Horses
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LABOR HISTORY
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San'ya (Tokyo, Japan)
Economic conditions 21st century
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and experience in Japan
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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
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Masculinity
Social aspects (Japan)
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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