A History of Labor Movement in Colonial Times

• Main Authors: Kuo-Yu Chiang, 蔣闊宇
• Other Authors: 黃美娥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4qdw4t

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 102 === The proposal is intended to reconstruct the developing course of labor movement in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial times. By use of the materials of newspapers, memoirs of the involved and correlational studies, a historical narrative of labor movement differ from History of Taiwan Social Movement(台灣社會運動史／警察沿革誌) with perspectives of both anti-colonial and worker-central is expected. To arrange the narrative sequence, labor organizers’ theory of historical periods published on Taiwan Minpow(台灣民報) is deployed with partially revised. Therefore, times of the huge wave of labor movement caused by the strike of Taiwan Ironworks(台灣鐵工所) in Kaohsiung(高雄) is referred to the “Dawn Period(黎明期)” (-1927), times between the Taiwan Ironworks strike and the Asano Cement(淺野洋灰) factory strike in Kaohsiung is referred to the “Mellow Period(成熟期)”(1927-1929), finally, times after Asano Cement strike while the state machine violentized and the strongest labor organization Taiwan Worker League(台灣工友總聯盟) gradually dismissed is referred to the “Distress Period(受難期)”. With respect to the History of Taiwan Social Movement, Reconstructing the historical narrative chronically is helpful to rediscover the lost causal connection between specific labor movement events, also for a deeper comprehension of the past.