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Miike Coal Mine: Document of the 200-Day Fight Miike: Nihyakunichi no tatakai no kiroku


Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Title: Miike Coal Mine: Document of the 200-Day Fight

Miike: Nihyakunichi no tatakai no kiroku

Photographer(s): Hiroshi Kawashima

Writer(s): Haryu Ichiro

Designer(s): Takahashi Kinkichi

Publisher(s): Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan

Year: 1960

Print run:

Language(s): Japanese

Pages: 90

Size: 18 x 25,5 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print: Chuetsu Insatsu Seishi Co., Tokyo, Japan

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Japan,1959

ISBN:


Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

Miike Coal Mine -Document of the 200-Day Fight is a photo book by photographer Hiroshi Kawashima on Coal strike published by Mai Shobo,Tokyo, Japan,1960

This book is a collection of photographs documenting the “Mitsui Miike Struggle” that erupted between 1959 and 1960. Coal, which had been a key industry supporting the backbone of the Japanese economy, gradually went into decline as postwar energy resources shifted to oil and imported coal with its high cost advantages increased. This led to restructuring at coal mines throughout Japan from the 1950s onward, and cutbacks and mass layoffs became widespread. Miike Coal Mine's rationalization was delayed and management deteriorated, partly due to the labor union's victory in a strike in 1953, leading to the outbreak of a struggle in 1959 when the company demanded a proposed workforce reduction of nearly 5,000 workers and the dismissal of more than 1,000 workers through nomination and dismissal.



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