Wages of Affluence Labor and Management in Postwar Japan

Name: Wages of Affluence Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
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ISBN: 9780674007062

ISBN-10: 0674007069

ISBN-13: 9780674007062

Edition: 1998

Authors: Andrew Gordon

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Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Managerial hegemony was achieved only after a bitter struggle that undermined the democratic potential of postwar society. The book draws on examples across Japanese industry, but focuses in depth on iron and steel. This industry was at the center of the country's economic recovery and high-speed growth, a primary site of corporate managerial strategy and important labor union initiatives. Beginning with the Occupation reforms and their influence on…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.



Prologue



Organizing the Steelworkers


Restoring Managerial and State Authority


Reinventing the Steel Mill


Forging an Activist Union


Breaking the Impasse


Fabricating the Politics of Cooperation


Mobilizing Total Commitment


Managing Society for Business


Japan's Third Way


Appendix: Figures


Notes


Works Cited


Index