Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo

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