Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan (Suny Series in Japan in Transition)

A fascinating exploration of the subculture of Japanese day laborers, whose lives depart radically from the traditions of stability Westerners associate with Japan.

Politics & Social Sciences

GILL, TOM

Social Sciences

State Univ of New York Pr

A fascinating exploration of the subculture of Japanese day laborers, whose lives depart radically from the traditions of stability Westerners associate with Japan.

State University of New York Press

Ged Comprehensive Review

Education & Teaching

Amstutz, Donna D.

McLanahan, Susan D.

Beers, Jim

Schools & Teaching

Steck-Vaughn Co.

Growing Up Rich: In South Georgia

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

AuthorHouse

Growing up Rich: In South Georgia

Growing up as a child of a sharecropper family in South Georgia paints an image of hard times but my memories are just the opposite. We ate three good meals every day and slept in a comfortable bed at night.  My parents loved me and taught me a code of conduct that I still strive to live by. I was taught; don't lie, cheat, say ugly words or talk bad about your neighbors. Go to Sunday school on Sunday and stay for church. Say yes sir and no sir to your elders and do not talk with food in your mouth. I was also taught to look people in the eye when talking to them. Daddy said that people with shifty eyes were not trustworthy.  When I was assigned to the White House Communications Agency as a Staff Officer during my military career, my upbringing became a source of strength that saw me though some demanding situations. I learned at a very early age that God loved me. When I became a Christian at the age of fifteen, Jesus made sure my very own angel was there to lift me out of numerous deep holes I dug for myself.  This book is memories of growing up in the mid forties and fifties and my twenty-three years in the U. S Army. These were challenging times for America and I consider myself fortunate to have lived through the period.  World War II was over and millions of military men and women were returning home to pick back up their lives with the same energy and determination that won the war.  The world today has changed dramatically from the world I grew up in. We have improved our standard of living with technologic advancements we only dreamed about. However, the world appears to have lost its ethical compass and is digressing back to the moral decay of the Roman Empire period of time. My prayer is that America will once again find its bearing and be a principled compass for the world to follow.

Tom Gill grew up on a small farm in South Georgia near the city of Blackshear. His father was a sharecropper. Like most tenant farmers, his family moved frequently to other farms throughout the county, trying to make improvements in their daily life, and standard of living. Although poor in material possessions, he was raised by Christian parents who showed him love and taught him a strong code of ethics that served him well at home and the twenty-three years in the U. S. Army. After graduating from High School in 1956, Gill immediately joined the U.S. Army where he discovered that there was a better way of earning a living then cropping tobacco in the hot sun in the summer time. He was assigned to a communications school as an enlisted soldier and later received a direct appointment to Warrant Officer. His military assignments included tours of duty in Korea, Philippines, and Germany. When he returned to Georgia after his tour of duty with the lst Cavalry Division in Vietnam was completed, he was selected for assignment to the White House Communications Agency. He served as a Communications Officer during four presidential administrations; Lyndon Johnson, Rickard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. During his tour of duty at the White House, Tom Gill worked in numerous positions in the Agency which included traveling in advance of presidential trips establishing presidential communications for the president. His assignment at the White House included overseas trips to France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina. He served in this capacity for four presidents; Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Growing up Rich in South Georgia is his story of how he grew up in the mid forties and fifties, and includes his twenty-three years of service in the U.S. Army. The years covered are from his birth in September, 1937, until November 30, 1978 when he retired from the Army.

Leaders & Notable People

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the Japanese ghetto, a self-educated philosopher whose thoughts on life in the slums, on post-war Japanese society and on more abstract intellectual concerns are conveyed in a series of conversations with British anthropologist Tom Gill, whose friendship with Kimitsu spans more than two decades. For Kimitsu, as for many of his fellow day laborers at the bottom of Japanese society, offers none of the comforting distractions of marriage, family life, or a long-term career in a settled workplace. It leads him through existential philosophy towards Buddhist mysticism as he fills the time between days of hard manual labor with visits to second-hand bookshops in search of enlightenment. The book also portrays Kimitsu’s living environment, a Yokohama slum district called Kotobuki. Kotobuki is a ‘doya-gai’—a slum inhabited mainly by men, somewhat similar to the skid row districts that used to be common in American cities. Traditionally these men have earned a basic living by working as day laborers, but the decline in employment opportunities has forced many of them into welfare dependence or homelessness. Kimitsu’s life and thought are framed by an account of the changing way of life in Kotobuki, a place that has gradually been transformed from a casual laboring market to a large, shambolical welfare center. In Kotobuki the national Japanese issues of an aging workforce and economic decline set in much earlier than elsewhere, leading to a dramatic illustration of the challenges facing the Japanese welfare state.

YOKOHAMA STREET LIFE: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer (AsiaWorld)

History

Asia

Lexington Books

Self-taught cartoonist Tom Gill was the man behind the Lone Ranger adventure comic books that entertained millions of youngsters from 1948 to the mid-1960s. This is Gill's inside story of the world of cartooning and how he and colleagues Rube Goldberg, Milt Caniff, Mort Walker, and others entertained U.S. Troops.

The Misadventures of a Roving Cartoonist: The Lone Ranger's Secret Sidekick

Comics & Graphic Novels

Lasiuta, Tim

How To Create Comics & Manga

Five Star Pubns

It's back! The complete reprints of the Gold Key Time Tunnel comic book series, in full color and digitally remastered! This second volume of Hermes Press's complete reprints of all of the Irwin Allen sci-fi television series tie-in comic books, Time Tunnel: The Complete Series features documentary material, essays, blue prints from the show, and more!

The Time Tunnel: The Complete Series

Wilson, George

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hermes Press

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