Divisions of Labor positions the ideological and organizational evolution of the Japanese labor movement within the larger historical currents that shaped and o

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position. It can be studied from many different po

Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Kore

The social history of Japan between the First and Second World Wars is a neglected area of study. The contributors to this volume consider factors such as natio