Labor Writer Tomohiro Koseki and the Machi-kohba\u27s World (3)

Tomohiro Koseki is a well-known labor writer who has been working as a skilled machinist for over forty years in Tokyo. He has published many books in which the life and work of factory workers in small factories at Kamata and Ohmori are described very vividly and in depth. These publications can be regarded as an excellent collection of labor history documents in the post-war Japan. The article attempts to describe the career patterns of skilled factory workers in Tokyo by utilizing the Koseki\u27s writings. A small factory in town is called "machi-kohba" in Japanese. The article focuses upon tow specific points that are career-patterns of machi-kohba workers and their skill formation processes. This article covers the introduction to the second chapter