概要

日時:2014年3月13日(木) 16:30-18:00
場所:3号館1階116室
講演者:酒井真世氏(東京大学大学院)
タイトル:How to Screen Miners’ Skills: Recruiting in the Coal Mining in Early Twentieth Century Japan

【Abstract】
In the early 20th century Japan, coal mining firms took an intermediary organization of labor, “dormitory system.” Given traditional technology that required high manual skills unknown to managements, firms relied on the intermediary organization both for screening and monitoring workers. This study focuses on referrers of miners, who took an essential role of signaling in the coal mining industry.