Korean Workers in Interwar Japan
by
Ken C. Kawashima, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor...