A Brief Review of the Labour Movement in Japan

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by Sanzō Nosaka

Part I: The Early History

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4453312A Brief Review of the Labour Movement in Japan1921Sanzō Nosaka

Workers of the world, unite!

A Brief Review

of the Labour movement

in Japan.

By I. Nosaka.

(Member of the General Federation
of Labour of Japan, Yuai-kai).

MOSKOW
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION
1921.

page

Workers of the world, unite!

A Brief Review

of the Labour movement

in Japan.

By I. Nosaka.

(Member of the General Federation
of Labour of Japan, Yuai-kai).

MOSKOW
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION
1921.

page

CONTENTS

PART I

The Early History.

1867–1910.

Chapt. I. The Forerunners of the Modern Trade Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1867–1900
	1. The Birth of Bourgeois Japan
	2. The Forerunners, 1897–1900.
	3. The Police Law, Suppression and Collapse.
Chapt. II. Socialist Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1901–1910

PART II

Recent Development.

1912–1921.

Chapt. I. „Yuai-kai“ and „Shinyu-kai“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1912–1917
	1. Formation of „Yuai-kai (Fraternal Society)“.
	2. „Shinyu-kai“.
	3. „Yuai-kai“ and „Shinyu-kai“.
	4. A General View of 1912–1917.
Chapt. II. Prologue of the Social and Industrial Upheaval, and Unorganised Strikes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1917–1918
	1. Development of Industrial Capitalism.
	2. Increase of Proletariat in Number and Power.
	3. High Prices.
	4. Revolutions Ferments abroad.
	5. Social and Industrial Unrest.
	6. „Rice Riot“.
Chapt. III. Amazing Growth of New Unions, a Series of Great Strikes, Sabotages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1919
	1. Reorganisation.
	2. Up till July.
	3. August.
	4. Agitation against the Labour Delegate to Washington International Labour Conference.
	5. Trade Unions, September–December.
	6. Industrial Battle Field.
Chapt. IV. Toward Solidarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1920–1921
	1. Poor Crop of the Unions.
	2. Aims of Organised Workers, and Political Action.
	3. Defeat after Defeat.
	4. Toward Solidarity.
Chapt. V. Revival of Socialism, and the „Left Wing“. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1910–1921
	1. Socialism Underground, 1910–1918.
	2. Revival of Socialism, 1919–1921.
	3. The „Left Wing“ in the Trade Unions.
	4. 1921, and the Outlook.

PART III

Survey of the present conditions and problems.

Chapt. I. Statistics.
	1. The „Organisable“ Workers.
	2. Trade Unions.
Chapt. II. Concentration of the Trade Unions
	1. Concentration of Powers in certain Unions.
	2. Massing in certain Districts.
Chapt. III. Constitution, and Yuai-kai.
Chapt. IV. Legal Position of Trade Union.
Chapt. V. International Relations.
Chapt. VI. Communism and Trade Unions.

APPENDIX.

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