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The Munitions Worker as Trickster in Wartime Japan

The Journal of Asian studies, 2017-08, Vol.76 (3), p.655-674 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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The Munitions Worker as Trickster in Wartime Japan
Author: Uchiyama, Benjamin
Subjects: Bureaucracy ; Bureaucrats ; Culture ; Discipline ; Elites ; Employment agencies ; Factories ; Guardians ; Industrial production ; Invasions ; Labor shortages ; Middle class ; Military supplies ; Nightmares ; Rage ; Society ; Wage & price controls ; Wages & salaries ; War ; Workers ; World War II
Is Part Of: The Journal of Asian studies, 2017-08, Vol.76 (3), p.655-674
Description: Following Japan's invasion of China in 1937, Japanese bureaucratic and intellectual elites constructed a volatile image of the munitions worker as trickster. Within this discursive realm, the worker became an object of hope, fear, and rage for the guardians of an idealized home front struggling to bolster war production while still adhering to wartime goals of national austerity. In the cultural fantasies and nightmares of the Japanese home front, the munitions worker fluctuated between the valorized “industrial warrior” laboring for the nation and a violent delinquent ready to wreak havoc on society.
Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9118
EISSN: 1752-0401
DOI: 10.1017/S0021911817000468
Source: ProQuest Central

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