Life Problems of Low-Wage Laborers and Lower-Class People in Modern Taisho Japan: A Focus on Nagaya Tenement House Residents

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  • 大正期大阪の雑業層が抱えた生活問題 ―「裏長屋」生活者の問題を中心に―
  • タイショウキ オオサカ ノ ザツギョウソウ ガ カカエタ セイカツ モンダイ : 「 ウラナガヤ 」 セイカツシャ ノ モンダイ オ チュウシン ニ

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During the Taisho period （1912-1926）, Japan saw industrial growth, but with-it labor and life problems increased in Osaka. We see these in Kamigata Rakugo characters, who although were great contributors to industrial growth were also the laborers in the lower economic strata of society. They are ‘scrap buyers’,‘garbage separators’,‘riverwaste collectors’,‘paper re-makers’, and other menial occupations. Often the setting for the stories are the nagaya tenement houses, which they lived in. Clearly, most of them lived in poverty, the cause of many of their labor and life problems. 　This paper focuses on these low-wage labors and the nagaya housing they lived in. Discussed are the actual problems they faced and the extent to which these problems were a burden. Also, some other points at issue are looked at to verify conventional theories of social life problems.

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