Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan

Name: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
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ISBN: 9780520080911

ISBN-10: 0520080912

ISBN-13: 9780520080911

Edition: 1991

Authors: Andrew Gordon

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Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can best be understood as part of an early twentieth-century movement for "imperial democracy" shaped by the nineteenth-century drive to promote capitalism and build a modern nation and empire. When the propertied, educated leaders of this movement gained a share of power in the 1920s, they disagreed on how far to go toward incorporating working men and women into an expanded body politic. For their…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/4/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.