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

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"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 r...

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Main Author: Hammering, Klaus K. Y. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Ithaca 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 / Everyday life / Unskilled labor / Building / Masculinity / Marginal group / Social position / Economic situation / Girard, René 1923-2015
IxTheo Classification:KBM Asia
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Masculinité - Aspect social - Japon
B San'ya (Tokyo, Japan) Social conditions 21st century
B Gangsters in popular culture (Japan)
B Unskilled labor Social aspects (Japan)
B San'ya (Tokyo, Japan) Economic conditions 21st century
B Masculinity Social aspects (Japan)
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