Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan: The Colonization of Hokkaido, 1881-1894

ISBN-13: 9780367670405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 82 str.

Pia Jolliffe

Opis

This book examines the local, national, and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894. Based on the analysis of archival, it uses a framework of global prison studies to trace the historical origins of prisons and forced labour in early modern Japan.

Spis treści

List of illustrations

Technical notes

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

1 Forced labour and arrest in Edo and Ezo

2 Hokkaido prison island

3 Prisons and rural development, 1881–1886

4 Hard labour as penal servitude, 1886–1894

5 Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Pia Maria Jolliffe is a Research and Teaching Associate at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Learning, Migration and Intergenerational Relations: The Karen and the Gift of Education (2016).