Study on modern city lower social stratum and "intellectual of the people"

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K03099
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Yasuharu NOGAWA 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 教授 (30293997)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 都市下層社会 / 釜ヶ崎 / 民衆的知識人

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is going to clarify the social movement in the "Kamagasaki" of postwar Osaka that is known as the town where a day laborer does live generally by making full use of result and documents historical materials of the hearing investigation area and the formation process of the worker culture. As result, I clarified that worker culture to promote that I had square it for worker culture to promote constitution of the everyday life through the analysis of the communication among limited number of people magazine and the unreasonable social way was formed. In addition, I clarified the life history of the woman who worked on a social movement while living Kamagasaki for many years.

Free Research Field

日本近現代史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

学術的意義としては、従来の日本現代史研究では顧みられることのなかった釜ヶ崎という地域を事例に、労働者文化の形成過程を明らかにしようとしたことが挙げられる。また、社会的意義としては、釜ヶ崎という地域は単に日雇い労働者が暮らす街として存在するだけでなく、そこでの社会運動を通じて日本社会を内側から問い直す発信をしていることを明らかにしたことが挙げられる。