The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement Takano Fusatarō and the Rōdō Kumiai Kiseikai

Few subjects have been so cursorily treated as the first Japanese unions. Yet their history contains much to intrigue the student of human events: The American Federation of Labor organizer who founded the Japanese labor movement; the Japanese Activists who spent years in AMerica studying unionism a...

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Main Author: Marsland, Stephen E. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Hawai'i Press 1989
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