Race for the Exits The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection

Name: Race for the Exits The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection
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ISBN: 9780801474453

ISBN-10: 0801474450

ISBN-13: 9780801474453

Edition: 2011

Authors: Leonard J. Schoppa

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Contrary to all expectations, Japan's long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation's malfunctioning economic structure. The country's basic social contract has so far proved resistant to reform, even in the face of persistently adverse conditions. In Race for the Exits, Leonard J. Schoppa explains why it has endured and how long it can last. The postwar Japanese system of "convoy capitalism" traded lifetime employment for male workers against government support for industry and the private (female) provision of care for children and the elderly. Two social groups bore a particularly heavy burden in providing for the social protection of the weak and…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Leonard J. Schoppa is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.