Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization

Tom Gill Is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University.

List of Illustrations

ix

List of Tables

xi

Acknowledgments

xv

Note on the Text

xvii

Introduction

1

(12)

First Encounter

1

(1)

Day Laborers in the Political Economy of Japan

2

(5)

Fieldwork

7

(2)

Outline of the Present Study

9

(1)

Sakae

10

(3)

General Historical Background

13

(24)

Overview

13

(1)

Mushuku and Hinin

14

(1)

Hiyatoi : Burakumin :: Hinin : Eta?

15

(3)

The Preindustrial Proletariat

18

(1)

License, Welfare, Control

19

(1)

The Ninsoku Yoseba of 1790

20

(2)

The Industrial Revolution

22

(5)

The Interwar Years

27

(3)

The Postwar Yoseba

30

(2)

The Modern Construction Industry

32

(2)

Tadao

34

(3)

Ethnography of Kotobuki

37

(44)

Location

37

(3)

Landscape/Atmosphere

40

(5)

Population

45

(2)

History

47

(3)

Employment

50

(13)

Residence

63

(3)

Play and Other Nonwork Activities

66

(5)

Bureaucratic Systems

71

(3)

Health

74

(1)

The Union

75

(3)

Kohei

78

(3)

Ethnography of Other Doya-Gai and Yoseba

81

(32)

San'ya (Tokyo)

81

(10)

Kamagasaki (Osaka)

91

(9)

Sasashima (Nagoya)

100

(3)

Day Laboring in Fukuoka Prefecture

103

(5)

Other Yoseba

108

(3)

Noriyuki

111

(2)

Who Are These Men?

113

(12)

Geographical Background

113

(1)

Occupational Background

114

(1)

Age

114

(1)

Marital Status

115

(1)

Sibling Group Size and Sibling Birth Order

115

(6)

The War and the Big Move

121

(1)

Ron-chan

122

(3)

The Meaning of Home

125

(22)

Why Mr. Shinohara Sleeps in the Street

125

(1)

Homelessness: Narrow and Broad Definitions

126

(7)

Symbolic Representations of Home

133

(11)

Kuriyama

144

(3)

Marginal Identity in the Yoseba

147

(24)

Marginality

147

(6)

Freedom

153

(10)

Fate

163

(5)

Kimitsu

168

(3)

The Role of the Yoseba in Contemporary Japanese Society

171

(20)

Zoned Tolerance

171

(1)

Marginal Geography

172

(3)

The View from the Mainstream

175

(3)

The View from Inside

178

(2)

Yoseba versus Skid Row

180

(5)

Containment versus Dispersal

185

(3)

Shigehiro

188

(3)

Epilogue: The Rise of Uncertainty, the Fall of Solidarity

191

(8)

Appendix: Statistical Tables

199

(20)

Notes

219

(18)

Glossary of Yoseba Terms

237

(6)

Bibliography

243

(12)

Index

255

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